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Disturbing footage of former Southern University WR and once-top-ranked HS football recruit Quaydarius Davis strangling his ex-girlfriend outside her home before dragging her unconscious body to the side and leaving her for dead
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I don’t know if a domestic abuse charge is enough given the attempted murder was caught on camera.
That’s straight up intended murder
Downgraded to 'domestic abuse' because, you know, he 'knew and was banging' the victim, so that means he gets a pass as that's just 'normal'. 🙄
Honestly, it's like you break a few bones on your own kids and then you have to go to counseling. Assault a stranger's kid and wham, it's straight to jail.
Woah, never thought of that.. it is kind of ridiculous
Yup. Read a police report sometimes. They have an actual line item for whether the perp and victim know each other and their relationship status in assault cases. I'm always curious why it's OK to beat the shit out of your wife, spend the night in jail, get bailed out, and you go home? To the person you just beat up.
Now, you get mad at some woman who cut you off in traffic, so you follow her home and beat the shit out of her - wham. Bigger fine, more nights in jail, restraining order, stiffer penalties. You might even go to jail. (unless you're a cop - they get a pass on everything because ... reasons)
I'm always curious why it's OK to beat the shit out of your wife, spend the night in jail, get bailed out, and you go home?
Because it might get applied to the people enforcing it or passing it.
Classic.
It’s the complete opposite of what you just wrote. In most states, during a domestic incident , the State (Police Department) is the entity that would be pressing the charges, even if the victim didn’t want to. This method takes away the option of a victim being too scared to press charges. For instance, a battered woman who knows her significant other will cause more harm to her if she calls the police on him, will likely not report the assault or will say she doesn’t want him arrested if the police show up. The police are mandated to make the arrest if they are related or in a sexual relationship.
On the other hand, if a man walks over to his female neighbors house and punches her in the head, she has the choice to press charges or not to press charges.
In either situation, if arrested, the perp could make bail and be out the next day. That’s a different problem
Police DV rates are significantly higher than the average, it's systemic.
Because it gives them less trouble to dismiss the charges against officers. Just check the rate of domestic abuse among police compared to the rest of the population.
It's probably down to the perps state of mind. Stalking someone home shows intent. Slapping someone mid argument can be argued as an outburst which is no intent.
Intent is the difference between murder and man slaughter.
It would be ridiculous if it was accurate, but it's not. He got charged with domestic violence because that's what they feel they can confidently prove at this early juncture, right now. More serious charges often come later, when prosecutors have a more complete picture of how strong the case for higher charges will be.
Jumping straight to charges that are a more difficult case to make in court is a great way to lose the case and cause the guy to get off Scot free. The goal here is to WIN.
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure actual prosecutors have a better idea of how to approach a case than random Redditors who just kind of make things up based on how they feel.
No one is being given a pass here. If they come to think they can make an attempted murder charge stick, they'll hit him with one. But that won't come right away. That's not how this works.
Just curious, Beerguy. What would they charge him with if he had never met this unfortunate woman before?
Would he have a defense if he didn't know the woman but 'thought' it was his girlfriend because of poor lighting? Then, would the penalties be lighter?
Probably an assault charge. Again it's not about what you know it's what you can prove in court.
Unless he literally said "Im going to kill you now" or something along those lines ,THEN they could go for certain charges.
Cause yeah otherwise they have a chance of getting the case thrown out altogether.
Aggravated assault perhaps
You bring up very solid points, and I agree with your perspective and commentary.
Something else to consider though is many people do unfortunately get away with these types of crimes, or get sentences downgraded. So we should still acknowledge the inherent flaws, injustice, and imperfections of our systems.
but I'm pretty sure actual prosecutors have a better idea of how to approach a case than random Redditors who just kind of make things up based on how they feel.
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Louis CK had a great bit about that. How fucked up it was that the only person you're legally allowed to hit is your own child, who is also the person who is completely dependent upon you for everything.
It’s the ol paterfamilias in Rome dads could summarily kill or beat and torture family members as head of the household.
I kinda wonder if they just charged him with that instead because they wanted it to stick. The DA may have worried they couldn’t prove attempted murder despite the video.
My girlfriend has an ex that is currently stalking her using multiple methods. She has pages of evidence of some crazy shit, including a life insurance policy he took out on her with himself as the beneficiary AFTER they broke up, and the prosecutors are still telling her she needs more.
Our legal system really sucks sometimes
And yet, when I try and bang the dead body to beat the murder charge down to a domestic people are all..."its necrohpilia"
i don't think this is true at all.
Attempted murder is such a bullshit charge. The intent was there and should be punished just like an actual murder. People shouldn't be given leniency because they failed to finish the job. If a person is willing to go that far they are a murderer in my eyes and should rot in prison.
One of the most common rationales I've heard for it is actually kind of related to your point. If they know that the charge is the same there is absolutely no inclination to ever NOT finish the job.
Keep in mind attempted murder has a very large scope of actions.
Homicide
All murder is intentional. It's literally the defining factor that makes something murder.
Edit: Wait, did you mean attempted?
A lot of US states have upped penalties for domestic violence strangulation because it is literally the biggest indicator of a future murder attempt.
Partners who've previously strangled their victims are the most likely of domestic abusers to follow up by killing them.
He easily could've killed her, maybe even assumed that he had.
He deserves a long prison sentence.
You can't argue that you weren't attempting to kill someone by strangling them into unconsciousness.
FFS someone needs to update the title. I thought he left her dead.
I did as well.
"Left for dead" is a common phrase that does not inherently mean she died. It simply means he left her to die.
FFS, learn reading comprehension. "Left for dead" means he left her to die. But she didn't and survived.
Since he’s a football player he’ll get off with a slap on the wrist.
Original article on the case. Fortunately she did survive and the guy was arrested on charges of burglary, domestic assault, and battery by strangulation.
Edit (from where I got the footage at whenwomenrefuse): I hate that I was reminded of this, but there's a horrifying statistic that if a woman’s partner has ever strangled her, even once, her risk of being murdered by that same partner with a gun shoots up 750% compared to a woman who has never been strangled.
Here's another source where I'm getting this. This was written in 2024:
In a study homicide victims killed by an intimate partner, it was found that 43 percent had experienced a non-fatal strangulation by their partner prior to their murder. In attempted homicides by an intimate partner, 45 percent of victims had been strangled before the attempted murder. Researchers in the study, including acclaimed domestic violence expert Jacquelyn Campbell, who developed the Danger Assessment in 1987, determined that being strangled by a partner even one time increases a victim’s risk of homicide by that perpetrator over 600 percent.
“The majority of women murdered in domestic violence homicides are shot, so everyone thinks [prevention] is about getting the guns. But strangulation is the high predictor of a homicide with a gun,” says Casey Gwinn, JD, president of the Alliance for HOPE International. In fact, because of the connection between strangulation and a later homicide with a gun, the hashtag for the Alliance’s Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention is #lastwarningshot.
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Was going to say, she went fully limp long before he released her. Scumbag.
He kept holding her in the choke while she was limp, probably to make sure she died. But fame and money can help anyone get out of serious legal trouble.
What fame or money does this individual have?
College football player in Texas is like two rungs below god to those people
Did you hear Greg Abbott a day or 2 ago, equating the Texas flooding to a football game? Absolutely sickening shit
Unfortunately, high school football in Texas gets more support than most HBCUs.
I'm a little ashamed to admit that I can rattle off the names Boobie Miles, Ivory Christian, and Mike Winchell without looking them up despite not reading that book or seeing the movie in probably 20 years (Friday Night Lights).
If only Boobie Miles and Dick Butkus could have procreated
Boobie has been in and out of prison for similar incidents to the one in the video, and is currently in prison for failing to register as a sex offender.
I hate than I can't even argue with that.
Good thing he didn't know how long it takes to kill someone that way, you'd have to hold a lot longer than that (unless you did enough damage to the tissues to cause swelling maybe). And she did flail again towards the end before seemingly passing out once more - that could be why it wasn't considered attempted murder. But I think it still should be, it's not like he checked to see if she started breathing again.
Edit: Brain damage can occur sooner, but brain death typically would take at least 4 minutes. She could have brain damage from this though.
It's not a movie, it can take up to 5 mins to do brain damage. I was put to sleep in a comp a couple of weeks ago, I have also put others to sleep that didn't tap.
I thought that surely meant intent to kill too, from checking elsewhere it looks like it requires a significant amount of time beyond unconsciousness for cellular death to occur from the lack of oxygen. I guess attempted murder would have to be a very long hold while unconscious (e.g., a whole minute+). Still, the way he dropped her could've killed her if she smacked her head on the concrete.
Hopefully the active charges are enough for a sentence of near permanence but I'm doubtful.
Charges can increase if and when more evidence is presented. From my understanding, they like to charge a suspect for minimum to get an arrest warrant.
Is the video not evidence enough?
I think so. But the legal system is complicated.
And horribly rigged.
I also agree.
Only one perfectly good camera footage. The judge needs at least two or their common sense can't be activated fully.
This obsession with proving the more serious crimes is why prosecutors fall flat in trial—you see it all the time.
I understand the emotional response to something heinous, but upping charges, particularly when there isn’t enough evidence, dilutes the case and can hurt the chances of lesser charges sticking.
Just look at the Diddy trial.
Source: Civil lawyer, but close friends with some people at both local DA and PD offices.
It's amazing how black and white some people think the justice system and due process is.
They always book for the lesser charges and will later decide to press more serious charges. This is because the lesser the charge is typically the less evidence you need to charge them and hold them where you can take your time building evidence for more serious charges.
Murder/ attempted murder need a lot of evidence to decide what exactly the charges should be
"Attempted murder" is a Hollywood and newsfotainment phrase. A lot of state codes don't use that phrase and instead use different degrees of assault and battery. My mom was stabbed in the neck repeatedly in her own home by a stranger. She survived. The perpetrator was charged with various counts and degrees of assault and the biggest charge was "kidnapping". That's a serious charge in most states and doesn't just mean someone holding you hostage. If a perp makes you go anywhere you don't want to go through violence or strength or threat, that can be considered kidnapping.
Strangulation is not automatically classified as attempted murder, but it can be if it was their intention.
It seemed like his goal was to incapacitate her, which is what he did. It would also be extremely difficult to prove that he intended to end her life.
It's disgusting and vile. I really hope his punishment is severe.
Killing via strangulation requires maintaining the hold for a long time too. Longer than you think. Movies and tv never get it right. Rendering someone unconscious like this happens much sooner than death. This plays a role in determining charges and guilt at trial. The key question is what was his intent.
I served in a jury trial once that involved death via strangulation and this was all explained to us. A medical examiner came in and explained that the suspect killed the victim intentionally via strangulation by gripping his throat for several minutes to ensure death and his self defense claim was therefore BS. We found him guilty of second degree murder. He is still in prison today.
Murder means intent. You've gotta prove that. Not always easy.
Second degree murder does not involve intent, but does mean there was a blatant disregard for human life. Still considered murder though
....to hard to prove, he only choked her unconscious, you can't prove he meant to kill her so unfortunately the lower charge is easier to get through a jury. Attempted murder has to cause greavous injuries...its the old saying " it doesn't matter what happened, it matters what I can prove happened"
I was a victims advocate for domestic violence victims so basically most of my job was convincing women to leave men like this and prosecute them. I say it's about a 20/80 split 80% of victims showing up to the first hearing to get the automatic no contact order revoked to take them back...and ive definitely seen worse than this girl got (not to diminish her pain at all) I had one gal who i thought had been sliced with a knife on her back, small petite lady, the dude beat her so bad it broke the skin and you could see her ribs.... got a felony assault charge, no attempted murder, guilty on all charges, 6 months in jail....women don't matter.
Intent is hard to produce at times.
I know Reddit is going to hate facts but… anyone w martial arts experience knows you can pretty safely choke someone unconscious without killing them.
So in this instance I’d agree that this is assault and battery, not attempted murder.
20k bail for attempted murder is crazy!
Nah there's no chance he gets out and breaks whatever restraining order and murders her. Nearly zero
So, I guess he lost all chance of the NFL drafting him in the first round. Still good enough for 4th and later, I bet.
The fact that she had broken up with him prior to this. This was clearly him trying to retaliate.. and wanted to hurt her or kill her. I hope he doesn't get away with it
"If he's so abusive, why don't you just leave then?"
Kinda puts that question to rest
Leaving an abuser us stastically the time you are most likely to be killed by them. Happened to me and thats how i found out.
Murdarius Davis
That’s awful. Any charges yet?
I thought it was more recent.
He plays football though & it's been a few months, so the better question would be "have the charges been dropped or downgraded to a slap-on-the-wrist or fine yet?"
This is disgusting. Please tell me she survived?
She did. He’s charged. School kicked in him out in October and he was arrested in April.
Looks like the school kicked him out for another reason. The video is timestamped April 12th of this year, the same day he got arrested.
School kicked him out for a different domestic abuse issue. This is his 3rd I think?
I'm so glad to hear this
And in August he’ll sign with an NFL team
Add that to the mountain of reasons why I don't follow the sport.
The Browns could use a WR
Wow I wonder why she was breaking up with him? He seems like such a good guy 🤷
In college I was roommates with a dude who had a full ride through football. He was dumb as rocks, violent, and a serial cheater/abuser. He eventually got kicked out for continuing to break the law. One of my other dorm mates was also on the team with a full ride. Literally the biggest and nicest guy I’d ever met. It was so fucking weird.
One probably had loving parents. Not to absolve the other because lots of people come from broken homes and shitty situations and become great and successful good people. But that probably has a lot to do with it
Funny you say that, I met his parents once. I assumed they’d be trashy, but they were incredibly well put together, like you could tell by looking at them they had good careers. I dunno, maybe they worked too much or he was just a shitty kid.
"Quaydarius"?
His brother is named Wharfdarius
They're the sons of PierDarius
But he didn't smoke weed. So he's still eligible for an NFL contract.
What was this recorded on? An RC car with a ring doorbell camera on it?
Im right there with you and no one else seems to know. Wtf. Nice though. Maybe a snake cam under a door because they heard a commotion?
It's just a motion detection security camera. I have one just like this so I can check on my dogs while I'm gone. It's why it's all jerky, they're not very smooth.
I still think it's a Motorola Razr strapped to a hamster.
I see
I know another user already solved this for you, but just to help others decipher what their eyes are seeing:
It is indeed a security cam mounted in someone's window. You can tell from the weird lighting/reflection cast on the left, and you can see the slats of the blinds on the right.
He’ll skip college and go straight to the Chiefs.
the Browns have entered the chat
the Vikings have entered the chat
We can fix him.
Chiefs fan checking in...
That sounds like a Key and Peele name.
Do we know why there was a camera right there?
Security cameras
I am wondering who was filming too, the camera moves multiple times. This is horrifying and I feel so sad for the girl.
Motion tracking security camera.
It's why it doesn't perfectly frame, and makes some janky movements when it detects him moving around.
Oh you’re right. Thank you
"When you're a star, they let you do it."
QUAYDARIUS DAVIS... SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
Thanks for this
I wonder if there is some connection between these very athletic guys slamming heads with each other at running speed and behavioral problems?
Huh, I guess we’ll never know.
Name a better combination than American football players, brain trauma, and domestic violence. I'll wait. 💅
Quaydarius?!
No one is safe when this happens! Lock them up for life.
He deserves years in prison.
I'd be pissed too if my name was Quaydarius.
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NFL will take him no problem
Is this a key n peel skit ? Wtf is with these dumbass footballer names lol
How revolting... and how he was so casually able to walked away.
Good he didn't kill her ...
Some people have never received the benefits of a good ass kicking.
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I'm sure they'll argue it's because of football caused brain damage.
I don't care how many hits to the head he's had. If he was at all functioning in society, then he was certainly aware that choking her could kill her.
Either you're safe to be part of society or you're not. He is clearly not.
Remember Wheeler? He only got 81 months.
There's definitely a link between football and trying to kill girlfriends.
Quaydarius 🙄
How to ruin your career for dummies. Hope she gets as far away from him .
Fuck the career, hopefully his entire life gets dismantled.
He was already kicked off the team in October 2024, before this happened.
yeah, he should have waited until he was in the league to do this.
4 game suspension
What a p.o.s.
Yeah but what’s 40?
Abysmal behavior and it’s hard to think about what’s not caught on video.
Unfortunately if given a second chance may very well accomplish it
What a shame, he was going to be a future astronaut.
For anyone in or adjacent to a domestic violence situation, strangulation is one of the top predictors of future homicide. Women who have been strangled by a partner are 7 times more likely to be killed later by that partner.
Statistically, men who strangle their romantic are more likely to eventually kill a romantic partner.
Which Quaydarius is this again? I always get them confused. It's like Cody's back in the early 90's...
key and peel need to update their NFL names
Quaydarius. FML.
The fact that he’s still playing after this despicable shit
I don't think he is still playing. I read that he was kicked off the team in October 2024, before this even happened.
Oh thank Christ
What a great guy I’m sure his folks are proud
Eh, parents who name their child Quaydarius were always saving bail money instead of college money.
fuck this guy
I don’t think prison is an adequate punishment for this piece of shit.
"I'm innocent until proven guilty," —Southern University WR Quaydarius Davis.
So incredibly disgusting. While women certainly can be violent too, this extreme kind of horrifically injurious/murderous level of violence is overwhelmingly male-perpetrated and that needs to stop. We have to change society so that machismo and brutality and physical intimidation is not respected or encouraged in men. Physical aggression is praised in men way too much.
We can demand change for the violent aspect of masculinity without stooping to the whole "men are trash" vociferously misandrist bullshit either.
I hear the LV Raiders already want to sign him.
Strangulation is a separate felony charge..
From the land of Diddy and Epstein ladies and gentlemen
so reddit gets rid of the "dark" subs then the content just creeps to the rest of reddit
What’s up with the amount of domestic violence in football players? Like this seems to happen a lot with these types of people.
athletes are some of the dumbest people you will meet.
Chad Wheeler of the Seahawks did this too, and got 81 months.
What's with football players trying to murder their girlfriends?
Maybe CTE?
Plausible. I wonder if that played into Chad getting such a short sentence. Wasn't there a pro wrestler who killed his wife and when they looked at his brain he showed signs of cte?
100% of pro football players who've had a post-mortem exam have been confirmed to have CTE.
Damn!
Time magazine did a whole story about it back in 2014. CTE isn't an excuse, but holy shit. Doing the bare minimum to prevent it, while players and their loved ones suffer is crazy.
Yeah it's.......wild to say the least.
To bad the title didn't say recently deceased southern university WR
Put buddy under the jail
Now this may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm gong to say it because it needs to be said.
That guy is a real jerk.
Straight to the electric chair. Period.
The Butthole Surfers had a perfect line about high school football players in their song Pepper. Been true forever.
was working somewhere and the customer told me they liked the song and asked me who it was and when i told them their name they just squinted and looked at me like i was just making it up on the spot
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Prior domestic violence on record from 2021 and 2023. Guy is an active danger
Any law savvy redditors know what kind of prison time he could be facing?
Well, he’s a rich ball player, so, zero. A normal person could face up to 10-15 years or life depending on the circumstances.
There are a LOT of variables but felony assault can carry a life sentence.
He got kicked off his college team in 2021 for domestic abuse and his other team in 2024 for undisclosed reasons, he's never going to get rich playing football, especially given this.
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Dudes played 3 years at a lower division of college football, in a league known for schools being in financial trouble, and has 1 touchdown in his career. He’s not making any money
Why would you think he's rich?
Yeah. Bail reduction was denied.
https://www.oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInformation.aspx?db=tulsa&number=CF-2025-1337&cmid=3774353
Rich? He played football in college until he was kicked off the team last year. So I hear you, but you're still talking out of your ass.
What makes you think he's rich? He isn't an NFL player. And probably won't be ever (although I did joke in another comment that he'd still get drafted at a later round).
Quaydarius? Straight from a Key & Peele sketch. Why do these people pick these dumb ass names?
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Insane stuff, the full video is even crazier