A judge will set the trial date for a Fayetteville mother of a kidnapped and murdered five-year-old girl Friday afternoon. Antoinette Davis, the mother of Shaniya Davis, faces a list of charges including murder, child abuse, and trafficking. Davis is accused of giving her daughter to Mario McNeill for sex and to settle a drug […]

Prosecutors have rested their case against Mario McNeill – who is accused in the 2009 rape and murder of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, according to WTVD. Prosecutors allege McNeill took the child from her home in the early morning hours of November 10, 2009 to rape her at a motel in Sanford before killing her and […]

The jury in the trial of a Fayetteville man accused of killing 5-year-old Shaniya Davis heard testimony Thursday from witnesses who said he was with a little girl at a hotel days before her body was found. The fourth day in the trial of 32-year-old Mario Andrette McNeill was spent reviewing security video from the […]

The brother of a five-year-old girl raped and murdered took the stand Wednesday in the trial for her accused killer, Mario McNeill. The boy was a seven year old at the time of Shaniya Davis’ death. On the witness stand, Carleso Davis described an intruder who entered his home on Nov. 9, 2009 as a […]

Mario McNeil, the man accused of murdering 5-year old Shaniya Davis is having his mental “capacity to proceed” evaluated. The jury has already been seated and opening arguments were scheduled to begin yesterday. The judge has delayed things until Friday. The doctors who will examine McNeill are from Central Regional Hospital in Butner and Cherry […]