MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman says she found a gun and three bloody knives inside a Nutbush home that she believes could be connected to a double homicide there nearly a month ago.
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Cosandra Milan is talking for the first time about the arrest of her brother, Arsenio Davis, for the deaths of their mother and 15-year-old nephew on Oct. 23 in the 1600 block of Helsley Road.
Tuesday, she said she was cleaning out her brother’s bedroom in the home and found the weapons in a trash can.
“I get the trash can, and when I pick the trash, you know, I feel something in there. So I brought it out of his room and took it to the front yard right here,” said Milan. “I covered it up with the bloody towel because I didn’t want to touch it because I was cleaning out the room.”
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She said she called the police, and a crime scene van showed up, they took pictures and left with the items. Milan said she can’t understand why they were not found by police investigating the killings.
“They didn’t do their job. I feel like if they do their job and search the house when Antonio’s body was removed away from here, my nephew, they would have found the guns and the knife in there,” Milan said.
Police said Davis shot and killed his mother, Betty Pratt, inside the home they shared on Helsley Road, and fled the scene. Hours later, he returned and killed his nephew…