Lonnal Davenport:
CLASS OF 1967
Arsenal Technical High School 716Class of 1967
Indianapolis, IN
Lonnal's Story
Lonnal is from Indianapolis, Indiana. Lonnal is single. Lonnal's schools include Arsenal Technical High School 716. Lonnal later attended Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) (Paralegal Studies). Lonnal works(ed) at VA Hospital.
Music Lonnal likes includes PhatzRadio, Dawnelle Elizabeth, Teairra Mari. Books Lonnal likes include Days of Elijah. Movies Lonnal likes include Power Rangers: Zenith, God's Not Dead. TV shows Lonnal likes include Setellite Dish TV, The Bible Series.
One of Lonnal's favorite quotes is:"No man but man is, is nothing, till he be satisfied with being nothing! Shakespeare".
More about Lonnal:"On 1/18/82, five plainclothes narcotics agents kicked my door down without identifying themselves. In defense of my life and property, I fired on the unidentified intruders, wounding one of them. In the ensuing gunfire, I was wounded myself.
During my trial, the officers lied and testified they had identified themselves.
One of the officers at the back door testified he heard one of the officers at the front door say, "I think he knows we're the police" before he heard those officers trying to break the door down. If they had identified themselves, why wouldn't I know they were the police?
The prosecutor used every dirty trick in the book, including intimidation of my only witness; a girl who was spending the night, who had ma...Expand for more
de two voluntary statements immediately after the incident stating the officers had not identified themselves. On the day she was supposed to testify, my public pretender sent her home without consulting with me. When I learned about it, I should have asked for a mistrial. He claimed the taped recording of her 911 phone call to the police would be enough to win me an acquital.
Despite all this, when the jury brought back a guilty verdict, they had added their own handwritten appendage to the verdict form stating; "with the recommendation of leniency due to the unpremeditated nature of the act" .
What jury is going to recommend leniency for a man they believed knowingly and intentionally shot a police officer after he identified himself? Moreover, how could it be "unpremeditated" if as the state alleged I ran to the back, and retrieved my gun and shot the officer after he identified himself?
Despite, the jury's recommendation, the judge gave me the maximum sentence of 50 years. I did a month and a half short of 25 years. So if I seem to be a little rough around the edges, please take into consideration where I've been, and the hard life I've been forced to live. Where death lurks around every corner, and almost everyone is coming at you with some kind of game. Give me some time to adjust! Who knows? With polish I may turn out to be a diamond in the rough!".
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