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Man Pleads Guilty To Killing Doctor in Tryst Gone Wrong
posted (May 24, 2018)
He was accused of murder, but Dwayne Davis today pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a male on male sex tryst gone wrong.

On June 18, of 2012, the police and KHMH medical staff rushed to the Belama Phase 1 home of Dr. Ivan Garcia, a Guatemalan General Practitioner. The Doctor was found inside dead, in a pair of boxer shorts on his bathroom floor, with a cut wound to the head and a black and blue eye. His neck also showed signs of manual strangulation - which is believed to have been the cause of death.

His apartment showed no signs of forced entry - which suggested that the Doctor's killer was someone he knew.

Police investigations led them to Dwayne Davis, a basketball player - who was 31 at the time. He turned himself into police and was charged with murder.

Almost 6 years later, his case came before Justice Adolph Lucas today in a trial without jury.

And, after his confession statement was accepted into evidence, Davis - who is now 37 - accepted his lawyer's advice and pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

With that, the text of the confession statement had to be read in court - and it revealed the intimate circumstances that led to the killing. On June 17, 2012, Davis and Dr. Garcia were socializing and drinking at the home of a doctor in King's Park. They then went to Dr. Garcia's apartment. Where they continued to drink.

They began getting intimate, but Davis said in his confession statement that he could not perform and they fell asleep. When they awoke the following morning, Davis told police that Dr. Garcia again wanted to have sex, but Davis said he wanted to go. When Dr. Garcia insisted, Davis said he put the Dr in a submission hold which knocked him out. Davis said he was looking for the key to get out of the apartment, but by then Dr. Garcia had regained consciousness. He says he tried to tie him up, but the Doctor got free and that's when Davis put a pillow over his face and struck him on the head with a can of beets - which was the deathblow.

Davis's fingerprints were found on a drinking glass at the apartment, and DNA evidence completed in Jamaica showed that his DNA was found under the finger nails of the Doctor's right hand.

Justice Lucas has deferred sentencing until June 14th. Davis was represented by attorney Bryan Neal while the Crown was represented by Crown Counsel Portia Ferguson.

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