SHANIYA DAVIS - 5 yo (2009)- Fayetteville NC

An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing 5-year-old Fayetteville girl.


The Fayetteville Police Department is searching for 5-year-old Shaniya
Nicole Davis. She is black female, approximately 3'0" and weights 40
pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a
blue t-shirt and no shoes. She also has a scar on her left foot.

The child was last seen at a home in Fayetteville.

Anyone with information about Davis should contact the Fayetteville Police Department at 910-433-1851 or call 911.

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Cumberland County authorities are
searching for Shaniya Nicole Davis, 5, who went missing from her home,
1116-A Sleepy Hollow Drive in Fayetteville, Tuesday morning."An Amber Alert has been initiated," according to a news release from Lt. David Sportsman.Police responded to the home around 6:50 a.m., and Shaniya's mother told officers that she last saw her daughter at 5:30 a.m.Shaniya is described as 3-feet tall and 40 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear. She is thin and has a scar on her foot.Police K-9s, fire officials and deputies with the Cumberland County Sheriffs Office are searching the area.Anyone with information is urged to call Fayetteville police at 910-433-1856 or call or call 911 or *HP.

Cumberland County authorities say foul
play is suspected in the disappearance of Shaniya Nicole Davis. The
5-year-old girl went missing from her home, 1116-A Sleepy Hollow Drive
in Fayetteville, Tuesday morning.An Amber Alert was initiated for Shaniya just before noon, Lt. David Sportsman said.Police
responded to the home around 6:50 a.m., and Shaniya's mother told
officers that she last saw her daughter at 5:30 a.m. The mother’s
boyfriend and her sister, along with an infant and Shaniya's 7-year-old
brother were also in the home when the girl went missing.“There
is definitely something not right about the situation. Foul play is
suspected,” Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said Tuesday
evening. It is unclear how the child left the home."The
circumstances surrounding her disappearance are very odd. A 5-year-old
usually...(is) not awake at 5:30 a.m. normally, and they just wouldn't
leave their home," Chance said. "If she would have wandered out of her
home, she would be around here somewhere."
Chance said the family has a history with the Department of Social Services."There have been major DSS issues with this family – who has custody, switching back and forth," Chance said.Chance
said it's unknown whether the child's disappearance is related to those
issues. Police said Shaniya's father flew in from out of state Tuesday
afternoon and was talking to investigators."We're treating this as a child in danger, with the information we have," Chance said.Chance
said police have been called to the home before. This summer, officers
served a search warrant at the home and found a variety of drugs inside.The
family was not allowed inside the home Tuesday evening after it was
deemed a health hazard due to extensive sewage leaks, authorities said.Police K-9s, firefighters and sheriff's deputies searched the area throughout the day Tuesday.“We are searching for her and hoping to find her alive, but we just don't know at this point,” Chance said.Chance noted that search dogs did not pick up Shaniya's scent, which they would have if the child was wandering around outside.Shaniya
is described as 3 feet tall and 40 pounds. She has brown hair and brown
eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear. She
is thin and has a scar on her foot.Fayetteville police say three
registered sex offenders live in the neighborhood. Theresa Chance said
the offenders, along with everyone else in the neighborhood, have been
interviewed.The sex offenders are not considered suspects, Chance said.Anyone with information is urged to call Fayetteville police at 910-433-1856 or call or call 911 or *HP.

Fayetteville police battled the rain
Wednesday as they continued to search for a 5-year-old girl who
disappeared from her home early Tuesday.Investigators recovered a blanket that is believed to belong to
Shaniya Nicole Davis from a neighbor's garbage can. The neighbor,
Andrea Moore, said she doesn't know how the blanket wound up in the bin
and said police told her the blanket belonged to the missing girl.Antoinette
Davis said she put Shaniya on the couch in their home, at 1116-A Sleepy
Hollow Drive in Fayetteville, at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. When she went
to check on her daughter about an hour later, the girl was missing,
Davis told police.An Amber Alert was initiated for Shaniya several hours later.Police
said Tuesday that they suspected foul play in the case, noting that
they doubted she would have walked off on her own at that time of day.Police
dogs searched the neighborhood and some nearby woods late Tuesday and
didn't pick up Shaniya's scent. Investigators said the dogs would have
picked up her trail if she had been walking around the area."This
case is definitely priority," said Sgt. Tracey Bass-Caine of the
Fayetteville Police Department. "Anytime you have a child of this age
(missing) or a child where the circumstances (of her disappearance) are
questionable, then of course this takes precedence."Bass-Caine
said the rain that started falling across central North Carolina late
Tuesday and continued Wednesday was hindering the search effort.
Evidence in the case could be washed away, she said."We had to close down the extensive search we were doing (Tuesday night) because of the inclement weather," she said.Antoinette
Davis spent much of Tuesday at police headquarters answering questions,
and investigators said they expected to continue questioning her
Wednesday. Shaniya's father flew in from out of state Tuesday afternoon
and also spoke with investigators.Police spokeswoman Theresa
Chance said the family has a history with the Department of Social
Services as far as custody of Shaniya and other children in the house.Chance
said police also have been called to the home before. Officers served a
search warrant at the home over the summer and found a variety of drugs
inside.Shaniya is described as 3 feet tall and 40 pounds. She
has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt
with pink underwear. She is thin and has a scar on her foot.Anyone with information is urged to call Fayetteville police at 910-433-1856 or call or call 911 or *HP.

Late Wednesday night police in Fayetteville, said they arrested a man in connection with the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl.Police also said they have not found the girl yet.


Investigators charged Clarence Coe with first-degree kidnapping.Fayetteville Police are still looking for 5-year-old Shniya Davis.Davis was reported missing from her home around 7:00 a.m. Tuesday.Police have not said how or if the suspect knew the child before the alleged kidnapping.

A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping
in the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl, but police were still
searching for the child early Thursday - two days after she went
missing.

Clarence Coe was arrested without incident at his Fayetteville home
around 11 p.m. Wednesday and charged with first degree kidnapping,
Fayetteville police said in a statement.

Investigators were still looking for Shaniya Davis, who was reported
missing from her home in Fayetteville's Sleepy Hollow mobile home park
around 7 a.m. Tuesday, said Lt. Alex Thompson. Her mother said she last
saw Shaniya that day around 5:30 a.m.

Police have said they suspected foul play and doubted the girl would
have wandered away from her home so early in the morning. They said
police dogs didn't pick up the child's scent during a search of the
neighborhood.

Thompson said detectives have not yet said whether Coe knew the
child. Coe was being held at the Cumberland County jail, where a worker
said records didn't indicate whether Coe had an attorney or a scheduled
court appearance.

Investigators found a blanket that may have belonged to Shaniya in a
garbage can outside a neighbor's home. Fecal matter was found on the
blanket and on the railing and porch of Davis' residence, where police
wouldn't allow anyone inside because of a sewage leak.

Shaniya's mother, Antoinette Davis, and her father, who flew in from
out of state, have been speaking with investigators. Police spokeswoman
Theresa Chance told WRAL-TV on Wednesday that the family had a history
with the state Department of Social Services regarding the custody of
Shaniya and other children in the home. She told the Fayetteville
Observer that Shaniya's father wasn't considered a suspect.

Fayetteville police made an arrest late Wednesday in the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl.Police
arrested Clarence Darriel Coe, 30, of 211 Brookwood Ave., at about 11
p.m. and charged him with first-degree kidnapping in the disappearance
of Shaniya Nicole Davis, police said.Detectives haven't released
any information about his alleged connection to Shaniya's
disappearance. Coe's home on Brookwood Avenue is about 4 miles from the
girl's house.There was also no information Thursday morning on the girl's whereabouts.Coe was being held Thursday in the Cumberland County Detention Center on a $100,000 bond.Coe
was previously convicted of assault on a female, breaking and entering,
larceny and other charges, according to Department of Correction
records.Antoinette Davis said she put
Shaniya on the couch in their home, at 1116-A Sleepy Hollow Drive in
Fayetteville, at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. When she went to check on her
daughter about an hour later, the girl was missing, Davis told police.An Amber Alert was initiated for Shaniya several hours later.A
neighbor, Andrea Moore, said she was awakened at about 3 a.m. Tuesday
by a banging noise outside her home. Later, police told her they found
a feces-covered blanket in her trash can that they believed was
Shaniya's.Investigators questioned Antoinette Davis for much of
Tuesday and Wednesday. Shaniya's father flew in from out of state
Tuesday afternoon and also spoke with investigators.Police also reviewed surveillance video form the Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park early Tuesday.Police
dogs searched the neighborhood and some nearby woods late Tuesday and
didn't pick up Shaniya's scent. Investigators said the dogs would have
picked up her trail if she had been walking around the area, prompting
them to suspect foul play in the case.Heavy rains late Tuesday and much of Wednesday hindered further search efforts.Shaniya
is described as 3 feet tall and 40 pounds. She has brown hair and brown
eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear. She
is thin and has a scar on her foot.Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call Fayetteville police at 910-433-1856 or call or call 911 or *HP.

North Carolina investigators are continuing their search for a missing
5-year-old girl after arresting one man in her kidnapping.

Fayetteville Police Department spokeswoman Theresa Chance said Thursday
that authorities believe the disappearance of Shaniya Davis was not a
random occurrence. Investigators have arrested 30-year-old Clarence Coe
and charged him with first-degree kidnapping.

Chance said Coe
was a person of interest early in the case and that a witness spotted
him transporting the girl out of a trailer park. Investigators are
assuming that Shaniya is in danger.

Investigators have said
police dogs did not pick up the child's scent during a search of the
neighborhood. She was reported missing from her a mobile home park
around 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Barbara Davenport, property manager at Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park
where Shaniya was living, said Coe is the boyfriend of the girl's
mother, Antoinette Davis, and has visited the trailer park several
times.

A North Carolina man charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old girl told a
judge he is not guilty Thursday as investigators scoured the town for
any sign of the missing child and said they assume she is in danger.

Cumberland County Judge Tal Baggett asked Clarence Coe, 30, during an
afternoon hearing if he understood why he was in court.

"No,
but I'm not guilty, sir," Coe said. He did not enter a formal plea and
Baggett said the court would appoint an attorney.

Baggett also
said Coe was also accused of "terrorizing" the child's mother, although
he did not elaborate. Coe has been formally charged only with
kidnapping.

Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said
a witness spotted Coe taking Shaniya Davis out of the trailer park
where she was reported missing around 7 a.m. Tuesday.

"I think it's safe to say this is not a random occurrence," Chance said.

Barbara Davenport, property manager at Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park,
said Coe is dating Shaniya's mother, Antoinette Davis, and has visited
the trailer park several times.

Investigators said police dogs did not pick up the child's scent during a search of the neighborhood.

"Our hopes are that she's close by," Chance said.

Coe was being held at the Cumberland County jail. He has several
criminal charges on his state record, including an April conviction for
misdemeanor breaking and entering, and he was released from prison in
mid-August, according to Department of Correction records.

Coe
was previously convicted of assault on a female, felony breaking and
entering, larceny, robbery and other charges dating back to 2001.

Investigators found a blanket that may have belonged to Shaniya in a
garbage can outside a neighbor's home. Lt. Alex Thompson said
investigators also found other items Shaniya may have been wearing.

Davis and Shaniya's father, who flew in from out of state, have been speaking with investigators.

A man charged in the Tuesday
disappearance of a 5-year-old Fayetteville girl was seen driving off
with her, police said Thursday.Fayetteville police arrested
Clarence Darriel Coe, 30, of 211 Brookwood Ave. in Fayetteville, at
about 11 p.m. Wednesday and charged him with first-degree kidnapping in
the disappearance of Shaniya Nicole Davis.The girl is still missing, and police provided no information Thursday morning on her possible whereabouts."She's
in danger. She was abducted. We're taking this of the utmost importance
and seriousness, so we're aggressively looking for her," said Theresa
Chance, spokeswoman for the Fayetteville Police Department.The girl's mother, Antoinette Davis, said she put Shaniya on the
couch in their home, at 1116-A Sleepy Hollow Drive in Fayetteville, at
about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. When she went to check on her daughter about
an hour later, the girl was missing, Davis told police.An Amber Alert was initiated for Shaniya several hours later.A
witness saw a man police believe to be Coe driving away from the Sleepy
Hollow Mobile Home Park on Tuesday with the girl in his car, police
said. Chance declined to identify the witness or say what time the
abduction occurred.A neighbor of the Davis family, Andrea Moore, said she was awakened at about 3 a.m. Tuesday by a banging noise outside her home.The
kidnapping wasn't random, Chance said, noting Coe knows the Davis
family. She declined to elaborate on how he knows the family."His relationship to that family ... is part of the investigation," she said.Coe's home on Brookwood Avenue is about 4 miles from the girl's house.He
was previously convicted of assault on a female, breaking and entering,
larceny and other charges, according to state Department of Correction
records.Investigators focused on Coe as a suspect in Shaniya's
disappearance early on and questioned him Tuesday and Wednesday, Chance
said.Antoinette Davis also was questioned for much of Tuesday
and Wednesday, and Shaniya's father flew in from out of state Tuesday
afternoon and also spoke with investigators."We're dealing with
getting very differing stories constantly, so we're trying to piece
together the truth and what was going on at the time," Chance said.Coe showed little emotion during a brief court appearance Thursday afternoon."I'm not guilty, sir. That's all I've got to say about it," he told District Judge Tal Bagette.She
confirmed that police pulled a blanket from a garbage can near the
Davis house that they believe belongs to Shaniya. She wouldn't discuss
how the evidence fits in to the investigation.Police dogs
searched the neighborhood and some nearby woods late Tuesday and didn't
pick up Shaniya's scent. Investigators said the dogs would have picked
up her trail if she had been walking around the area, prompting them to
suspect foul play in the case.Heavy rains since late Tuesday have hindered further search efforts."There's
a lot of information we're following up on," Chance said. "We have a
lot of people calling now, giving us tips and leads. We're
re-interviewing people at the mobile home park that we talked to
previously."Shaniya is described as 3 feet tall and 40 pounds.
She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue
T-shirt with pink underwear. She is thin and has a scar on her foot.Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call Fayetteville police at 910-433-1856, 911 or *HP.Coe
was being held Thursday in the Cumberland County Detention Center under
a $100,000 bond. His next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 2.

A missing 5-year-old North Carolina girl was seen with a man at a
hotel, but not the same person charged in her kidnapping, police said
late Thursday.
Shaniya Davis was spotted in Sanford with a man identified as Mario
Andrette McNeill, said Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Teresa Chance.
She was seen with him Tuesday, about an hour after she disappeared from
her home in Fayetteville, about 40 miles away.
Late Wednesday night,police arrested and charged 30-year-old
Clarence Coe, who told a judge at his first court appearance that he is
not guilty of kidnapping the girl. Police did not comment on any
possible link between Coe and McNeill.
Chance said a hotel worker called police to report seeing a child
matching Shaniya's description, but by the time police got there,
McNeill had left. Authorities reviewed surveillance video and, after
speaking with family members, confirmed the child's identity.
Chance said authorities are uncertain of the connection between
McNeill and the child. Her father, Bradley Lockhart, made a tearful
appeal for his daughter's safe return.
"We just ask that they bring her home safe. We all miss her and love
her very much," Lockhart said. "Shaniya, if you're listening to daddy,
I miss you so much, honey. I'm waiting for you. I'm not going to give
up. You don't give up either, honey."
In court on Thursday, Cumberland County Judge Tal Baggett asked Coe if he understood why he was there.
"No, but I'm not guilty, sir," Coe said. He did not enter a formal
plea to the kidnapping charge, and Baggett said the court would appoint
an attorney.
Baggett also said Coe was also accused of "terrorizing" the child's mother, although he did not elaborate.
Chance said a witness spotted Coe taking Shaniya Davis out of the trailer park where she was reported missing.
"I think it's safe to say this is not a random occurrence," Chance said.
Chance also said authorities believe the girl is alive.
"We believe she's safe. We just want him to return her. We have no
reason to believe that he would harm her, none at all," Chance said.
Barbara Davenport, property manager at Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home
Park, said Coe is dating Shaniya's mother, Antoinette Davis, and has
visited several times.
Investigators said police dogs did not pick up the child's scent during a search of the neighborhood.
"Our hopes are that she's close by," Chance said.
Coe was being held at the Cumberland County jail. He has several
criminal charges on his state record, including an April conviction for
misdemeanor breaking and entering, and he was released from prison in
mid-August, according to Department of Correction records.
Coe was previously convicted of assault on a female, felony breaking
and entering, larceny, robbery and other charges dating to 2001.
Investigators found a blanket that may have belonged to Shaniya in a
garbage can outside a neighbor's home. Lt. Alex Thompson said
investigators also found other items Shaniya may have been wearing.
Davis and Shaniya's father, who flew in from out of state, have been speaking with investigators.

Police in Fayetteville say a missing 5-year-old
who's the focus of a nationwide Amber Alert has been spotted alive in
the company of a 29-year-old man.
Fayetteville Police Department spokesperson Theresa Chance told
reporters authorities got the tip from a hotel in Sanford. That's about
40 miles north of Fayetteville. After reviewing surveillance video at
the hotel, police identified the man with Shaniya Davis as 29-year-old
Mario Andrette McNeill. Chance said the pair checked into the hotel at 6:11 a.m. Tuesday morning, apparently before Davis' mother reported her missing.Authorities said the connection between the girl and McNeill is unknown at this time. Police
said they want to reunite the child with her family and believe she is
still alive. Davis' father pleaded at a Thursday night news conference
for his daughter's safe return. "Shaniya, if you are listening to daddy ... I miss you so much ... I'm not going to give up," Bradley Lockhart said. Thursday,
the Fayetteville Police Department announced an arrest in the case.
Clarence Coe, 30, of Brookwood Avenue in Fayetteville was charged with
first-degree kidnapping after a witness told investigators they saw him
leaving the mobile home park where Davis lives with her in his car.
Police didn't elaborate on how Coe and McNeill could be associated. Coe remains in the Cumberland County Detention Center without bond. Chance
also did not say how Coe knows the child or the Davis family, but the
manager of the Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park, where the Davis family
lives, claims that Coe is the boyfriend of
Antoinette Davis, Shaniya's mother. According to state
records, Coe was recently released from prison after serving four
months behind bars for assaulting a woman earlier this year. Coe also
has previous breaking and entering and larceny convictions dating back
several years. Police say Coe was a person of interest early on in the investigation. They haven't said if he is cooperating with detectives. McNeill
also has an extensive criminal background. Records checks
turned up convictions for selling illegal drugs, assault, shooting into
an occupied home, and more. Anyone having any information on
the current whereabouts of Mario McNeill or Shaniya Davis is urged to
contact the Fayetteville Police Department at (910) 433-1856. To leave
an anonymous tip, call Crime Stoppers at (910) 483-8477.

A second man has been charged in the
disappearance of a 5-year-old girl, police said Friday, but the
whereabouts of the girl are still unknown.Mario Andrette
McNeill, 29, was arrested early Friday and and charged with kidnapping.
He was being held in the Cumberland County Detention Center under a
$100,000 bond and was expected to make his initial court appearance at
2:30 p.m. Friday.Police also dropped the kidnapping charge against another man in the case and released him.

Shaniya Nicole Davis was reported missing from her home, at 1116-A Sleepy
Hollow Drive in Fayetteville, Tuesday morning. Her mother told police
she put the girl on a couch at 5:30 a.m., but she was gone when her
mother went to check on her about an hour later.A worker in a
Sanford hotel called Fayetteville police on Tuesday to report seeing a
child matching Shaniya's description with a man at the hotel. A
security video showed the girl with a man believed to be McNeill at the
hotel at 6:11 a.m. Tuesday.By the time Fayetteville investigators reached the hotel, the man and the child had checked out, police said.Shaniya
appeared to be "well taken care of," Theresa Chance, spokeswoman for
the Fayetteville Police Department, said Thursday night."We believe she is safe," Chance said.McNeill has a criminal history, including arrests for fleeing to elude arrest, assault on a female and drug possession.His relationship to the child is unknown.Police
arrested Clarence Darriel Coe, 30, of 211 Brookwood Ave. in
Fayetteville, late Wednesday and charged him with first-degree
kidnapping in the case.A witness saw a man police believe to be
Coe driving away from the Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park on Tuesday
with Shaniya in his car, police said.Chance said investigators
have determined he wasn't involved in Shaniya's disappearance, and they
dropped the charge against him Friday morning.Shaniya is
described as 3 feet tall and 40 pounds. She has brown hair and brown
eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear. She
is thin and has a scar on her foot.Anyone with information on
Shaniya's whereabouts is asked to call the Fayetteville Police
Department at 910-433-1856 or Crime Stoppers at 910-483-8477.

A North Carolina man has admitted to kidnapping a 5-year-old girl,
authorities said Friday, but investigators still have not found the
child more than three days after she disappeared from a mobile home
park.
However, the attorney for Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, said Friday that
his client would plead not guilty to kidnapping Shaniya Davis.
Fayetteville Police Department spokeswoman Theresa Chance said McNeill
admitted to taking the girl.