

Ronald Steven Banks, who was serving as a pallbearer for Davis' funeral, was killed, while another woman was shot in the leg.Ĭhavis fled the scene in his car but was pulled over and detained a few minutes later.

While several people attending the funeral tried to intervene and calm the situation down, Chavis pulled out a gun and fired several shots, striking two people. A family has been left traumatized after a shooting broke out during a funeral for a ten-year-old girl who was the victim of gun violence.Īuthorities said that Wilson Chavis, 48, who owns the funeral company that organized Arianna Davis' funeral, got into an argument with two people from a different funeral company with which Chavis has a long-standing business dispute.ĭavis' mother, Antionette Belk, told WRC that Chavis yelled, "I own this body," and then spit on the preacher, who was Davis' uncle.
