Maryland funeral company owner sentenced to 35 years for shooting pallbearer during child’s service

On Friday, Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Tara Jackson announced Wilson Chavis’ sentencing in the death of 30-year-old Ronald Banks.

Banks was a pallbearer at a funeral service at Washington National Cemetery in Suitland for 10-year-old Ariana Davis, who died after being struck by a stray bullet inside a car on Mother’s Day in 2023.

Chavis, 50, got into a confrontation with two people who worked for another funeral service company over a “long-standing business dispute” he’d apparently had, according to police…

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