Fatal Encounters

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Tre'veon Davis

Name: Tre'veon Davis
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Race: African-American/Black
Date: 05/17/2020
Location: Dillon Drive & U.S. 51
Dyersburg, Tennessee, 38024
County: Dyer
Agency: Dyersburg Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Pursuit
Media summary: At 1:08 a.m., a Dyersburg officer saw a caravan of vehicles traveling at a high speed. The lead vehicle, a 2008 Infiniti, driven by 19-year-old Jeremy Grant, was pulling away from the other vehicles. The officer tried to stop the Infiniti, when the driver fled south at a high rate of speed as it traveled outside of the city limits. As the vehicle approached another vehicle also traveling south, the driver swerved abruptly and fishtailed. The driver lost control, and the vehicle left the roadway where it hit a concrete culvert, and flipped ejecting three passengers Tyronzen Smith, 16, Tre'veon Davis, 22, and Tyrone Smith, 21.
Unique ID: 28071

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