Another benefactor of lenient sentencing.
Via KOB4:
An Albuquerque Police Department officer was shot around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday at the Walgreens at Central and Eubank. The suspect, identifed as 34-year-old Davon Lymon, was captured just after midnight Thursday, according to APD.
Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden said at a 1:30 a.m. news conference Lymon was found hiding in a yard in the neighborhood north of where the shooting occurred by a law enforcement helicopter.
Eden said Lymon wouldn’t leave the yard, so a K-9 was used to take him into custody.
Eden said Lymon had a single handcuff on him when he was finally arrested, which led police to believe the officer who was shot was in the process of arresting Lymon when he was shot.
Eden said there was evidence the officer had attempted to use his Taser on Lymon as well.
Eden added that officers had another man in custody – though he did not elaborate on him – and said officers were still looking for a woman who was on a motorcycle with Lymon when they were pulled over.
Sources tell KOB the officer was shot in the head and neck during a traffic stop. Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden said the officer is an eight-year veteran of the force. He underwent multiple surgeries Wednesday night at the University of New Mexico hospital.
LYMON’S CRIMINAL HISTORY
Lymon has an extensive criminal history, as Eden pointed out.
Court records show Lymon has faced four court cases in 2015 alone before Wednesday’s shooting, though many related to the same crime from 2014. In that case, Lymon was indicted by a grand jury and faced felony aggravated battery and kidnapping charges from a December 2014 incident was nolle prosequi-ed in March. The case appears to have been refiled in late September with other charges, according to court records, but the charges had been changed to two misdemeanor counts of aggravated battery without great bodily harm.
He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, aggravated battery and conspiracy charges in 2002 after he was accused in the 2001 murder of 20-year-old Ronald Chanslor Jr. – the grandson of the founder of Blake’s Lotaburger.
He was sentenced to 11.5 years with 390 days time served, giving him a little less than 10.5 years in prison.
He pleaded guilty to fraud and forgery the year before in a Tierra Amarilla court.
In 2012, another case in Espanola court for robbery and conspiracy was dismissed without prejudice, but was never refiled.