The household of a well-liked small enterprise proprietor within the south suburbs is pushing for solutions after their liked one was fatally shot earlier this week.
Tavares Davis was shot and killed Tuesday close to Drexel Avenue and one hundred and fifteenth Avenue in Dolton, in keeping with authorities. A well-know native entrepreneur, Davis, alongside together with his spouse, based “The Funnel Cake Man,” a funnel cake enterprise with shops inside Orland Sq. Mall in Orland Park and Southlake Mall in Merrillville.
Household, pals and neighbors got here collectively Sunday as they launched balloons to recollect Davis, a person who did what he might to serve his neighborhood.
Members of the family say a couple of suspect or witness has been recognized within the deadly capturing, they usually’re pleading for them to come back ahead.
“I would like you to go to Dolton Police Division and inform them what you recognize,” mentioned Davis’ spouse, Nakesha. “The reality must be revealed. We deserve that, I deserve that. My youngsters deserve the reality. The neighborhood deserves to know the reality about what occurred to my husband.”
The Davis household, together with neighborhood activists Andrew Holmes and Michael Airhart, are providing a reward of as much as $3,000 for info that results in an arrest. Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard elevated the reward to $5,000.
“The people that have been there that took his life, you recognize who you might be,” Holmes mentioned. “Go do the precise factor, flip your self in as a result of it could simply be a matter of time.”
Anybody with info on Davis’ loss of life is requested to name the Dolton Police Division at 708-841-2533.
