The trial of Kentaevious Raeshon Davis on murder and other charges alleging that he killed two other young men, Christopher Joyce and Jamaryce Mincey, in a Statesboro motel room on Feb. 29, 2024, got underway Monday in Bulloch County Superior Court.

All three men were allegedly armed at the time of the shooting, but investigators and prosecutors maintain that Joyce and Mincey never fired their guns. Besides 13 spent cartridge casings — all reportedly matched to a 9 mm pistol Davis possessed but from more than one ammo brand — and two bullets lodged in the walls and three more in a mattress, items recovered from the room included head-covering balaclava-like masks and tiny amounts of what a police detective called “a baggy containing a white powdery substance” and separately, a tiny amount

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