14-Year-Old Justice Boy Charged in Slaying Of Teen Found In Stairwell

JUSTICE, IL — A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday after a months-long investigation for the slaying of 15-year-old Suri Davis at a Justice apartment complex in November 2021, police announced. The boy is being charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder.

Davis, a sophomore at Argo Community High School, was let off by the school bus at the Willow Hill Apartment Complex around 3:30 p.m. Nov. 22, 2021. Police said Davis called her mother at work to tell her she was on her way upstairs to their apartment.

Later, around 5 p.m., Justice police went to an apartment building in the 8600 block of 87th Street, where a person bleeding in a stairwell had been reported. Davis was found dead with a gunshot wound to the face. Police believe the teen was shot in the stairwell shortly after getting off the bus and had been there for over 90 minutes.

Sgt. Fred Schuerg, of the Justice Police Department, told Patch that Davis and the boy, who was 13 at the time of the purported shooting, knew each other but would not comment on the nature of their relationship.

While Justice detectives and members of the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force were still in the stairwell, Schuerg said the boy returned and “acted like a witness.”

In the week following the slaying, police dredged the pond in the Sunset Lake Apartments for evidence and searched the area with drones. Police also brought in a bloodhound.

Schuerg said police were waiting for evidence to be returned from the Illinois State Crime Lab.

“It has been a while and frustrating, waiting for stuff to come back,” he said.