Maplewood Triple Murder Suspects In Custody: Prosecutor

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Authorities have charged two New Jersey men with a triple murder that took place at a Van Ness Court apartment last month.

Prosecutors said that detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, FBI and Yonkers Police Department arrested Lavelle T. Davis, 33, of Galloway, early Saturday morning in Yonkers, New York.

Police had previously said that Davis was at-large and considered “armed and dangerous.”

Authorities arrested a second suspect in the triple murder - Jimmy P. Mays, 37, formerly of Egg Harbor Township - in Columbia, Maryland on Friday.

Police charged Davis and Mays with three counts of murder, as well as conspiracy to commit murder, felony murder, robbery and weapons charges.

Prosecutors previously said that Maplewood firefighters discovered three, unresponsive adults after being called to a Van Ness Court apartment around 11:45 a.m. to check a resident’s well-being after receiving a call from a concerned person who had been unable to contact them.

On arrival, firefighters used a ladder to gain entry to the apartment where they discovered the three victims, according to a joint statement from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Maplewood Police Chief Robert Cimino.

Emergency responders pronounced the two males and female dead on the scene.

Authorities identified the victims as Michael Davis, 45, of Maplewood, Roshana Kenilson, 30, of Paterson and Lance Fraser, 44, of Newark.

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