Eric Lee Davis has been identified by Tucson Police as the man who shot and killed by police after he shot and killed his wife Samantha Davis. After police entered the home, they discovered the 34-year-old Samantha Davis, deceased in the main level den area of the home. Eric Davis, was found deceased in a bedroom on the second floor of the home.
After shooing his wife, Davis engaged in a five hour stand off with Tucson Police SWAT yesterday at his parent’s home, near North Silverbell Road, and West Grant Road.
The standoff began at approximately 12:30 p.m., it ended at approximately 5:30 p.m. after the barricaded Davis appeared at an upstairs window and was shot by a SWAT officer.
At the time of their arrival on the scene, police did not know if the couple’s two children were inside the home, and believed that Samantha Davis was being held against her will. Police later confirmed that the children were not in the home at the time of the incident.
Hostage negotiators and the SWAT team were called in, but police reported that Davis appeared irate and irrational. Police were unable to talk with Davis who kept hanging up the phone on them.
Police played a taped message by the Davis family urging him to surrender to no avail.
Davis lived in the basement of his parents’ home in the 2000 block of West Saddle Hills Drive, with his wife. His mother reported, in a call to 911, that the front door was locked and she heard a gunshot.
In total, Davis fired more than 25 shots at police. No officers were hurt.