Video shows moments before fatal shooting at 10-year-old’s burial
Cellphone video obtained by News4 shows the moments leading up to a shooting that killed a pallbearer at the burial for a 10-year-old D.C. girl who died after a Mother’s Day shooting.
William Chavis, 48, is charged with killing 30-year-old Ronald Banks Tuesday.
Chavis had a long-running dispute with a rival funeral home, which led to the shooting that killed Banks and injured a woman attending Arianna Davis’ burial at Washington National Cemetery in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Video taken at Arriana’s graveside captures the dispute before the shooting.
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Witnesses say as Banks was helping lower the girl’s coffin into the ground, he realized what was happening and tried to stop it.
“Ron was a very, very, very nice guy,” said Issac Lambert, Banks’ father. “He was always humorous. He has, like, thousands and thousands, I mean, like, I’ve been on Earth way longer than him, and he has more friends than I will ever have. And he was always someone you could always count on him for anything.
“You could yell at Ron, and I would yell at Ron, and once I get done yelling at him, he wants to give me a hug,” Lambert said.
Chavis is being held without bond.
Source: NBC4 Washington
