A hardworking father-of-four was shot and killed over the weekend, after he asked a career criminal to move his car as it was blocking the driveway.
Trevor Hughes, 49, had just returned to his Bronx home in the early morning hours on Sunday after working an event as a DJ, only to find that an SUV was blocking the driveway he pays a neighbor to park at, according to the New York Post.
His brother told PIX 11 he called New York City’s non-emergency line at 311 and even tried to call the police about the illegally parked vehicle.
‘A patrol car came and all they had to do was ticket the vehicle,’ the unidentified brother told the Post. ‘Ticket the vehicle, get it towed and that’s it.
‘All he wanted to do was get inside so he could get four hours of sleep. Then he had to be up again to DJ for a brunch,’ the brother said.
But when no efforts were made to ticket or tow the vehicle, Hughes decided to take matters into his own hands – walking to the Absolutto nightclub around the corner to report the vehicle.
He then waited outside of his home with his girlfriend, when prosecutors say 46-year-old Lavar Davis started arguing with him.
Davis had tried to claim it was not a driveway, before he shot Hughes in the stomach as his girlfriend, 43-year-old Fallon Wise beat up Hughes’ girlfriend, fracturing multiple bones in her face.
Trevor Hughes, 49, was shot and killed just outside his home in the Bronx early Sunday morning after he asked a career criminal to move his SUV, which was blocking Hughes’ driveway
Neighbor Rose Marie said she caught the entire altercation on her surveillance camera.
‘The guy goes, “What’s going on? You wanna get it out? I get [the gun] out for you” and then boom, boom, boom,’ she described to the Post. ‘Right in front of his own house over a parking spot.
‘And the cops come with an ambulance because they beat up the girlfriend. They beat the hell out of her.’
A criminal complaint obtained by the New York Daily News alleges that Wise punched Hughes’ girlfriend in the face and kicked her when she was down, leaving her with ‘multiple fractures to her face, including a fractured orbital bone, fractured nose and multiple fractured teeth.’
She may now need surgery for her orbital bone.
Hughes was also rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Meanwhile, prosecutors said Davis fled the scene, but officers were later able to track him to Wise’s apartment.
Hughes’ brother said he called 311 and 911 to get the vehicle ticketed or towed
The suspect, 46-year-old Lavar Davis, started arguing with him and claimed it is not actually a driveway before he allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Hughes in the stomach
‘When police officers went to find the defendant there, he barricaded himself into the apartment and refused to com out voluntarily, requiring the police to send in the Emergency Services Unit to get him out,’ Bronx Assistant District Attorney Lawrence Rozenblum said at an arraignment on Monday.
Davis is now facing second-degree murder charges, and in court on Monday, prosecutors noted he has a lengthy criminal record.
In 1997, when he was just 17, Davis pleaded guilty to a murder charge in upstate New York and avoided trial.
He then served more than 24 years in state prison, before he was paroled in March 2021.
But after spending only 10 months of his adult life outside of prison, he was charged by federal prosecutors with felony possession of ammunition after firing a gun into the air outside a Brooklyn building in January 2022.
Davis was then handed a 15-month sentence and released from federal custody on lifetime parole in September 2023.
Hughes, a father of four, was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead
His life of crime appears to come in stark contrast to that of Hughes, who had immigrated to the United States at the age of 2018.
He worked as a DJ and a locksmith, and was always willing to lend neighbors a hand, they said.
‘If I go out to work early and there is snow, he’s going to shovel [out] the snow for my mother-in-law,’ neighbor Akmell Edwards told ABC 7, adding that Hughes also ‘helped me cut the trees and do weird things in the house.
‘I’m just – can’t even get the words – caught off guard, just caught off guard,’ he said of Hughes’ death.
‘He helped anyone in the area that needed his help,’ Hughes’ brother added. ‘He was always with a smile. His thing was always respecting the community.’
The grieving sibling said he is left devastated by his brother’s untimely passing.
‘I’m empty. My life is empty. My home is empty. What do I do now?’
He went on to note that Hughes had a family trip planned for November to his native Tortola in the Caribbean to celebrate his 50th birthday.
Neighbors have told how Hughes was always willing to lend them a hand
‘You know what’s happening here with New York City, the working-class people are being murdered by criminals and it’s not fair for the people that work,’ he argued.
‘You know, I hope that Trump can look at what’s happening in New York City and bring the death penalty here,’ he continued.
‘This is a working-class community here. Everybody here works, and this club here around the corner has been a continuous problem. People have been continuously reporting complaints.’
But, he said, the problem is not isolated to his neighborhood.
‘The thing is it’s not just this alone. It’s everywhere,’ the brother said.
‘It’s happening everywhere where you start reporting all these senseless murders of innocent people, kids, innocent kids getting killed.’
Davis is now being held without bail and is due back in court on Friday.
Meanwhile, Wise was released on her own recognizance and is due in court in early March.
She has been charged with assault and harassment, but prosecutors have hinted that she may face even more charges after she ran off with Davis and hid him in her home.
