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CHAMBERS COUNTY MURDER

LOCAL NEWS

02/10/2010

A TRIAL DATE HAS BEEN SET FOR THE PAIR OF TEENAGERS CHARGED IN THE MURDER OF A WINNIE MAN IN 2008. WE HAVE REPORTED IT WAS JULY 6^TH 2008 WHEN DAVID DAVIS WAS FOUND DEAD INSIDE HIS BURNING HOME. INVESTIGATORS SOON DETERMINED THE WINNIE MAN HAD BEEN STABBED TO DEATH. THEY BEGAN LOOKING FOR DEVON MEEKS, THEN 19 YEARS OLD. CHAMBERS COUNTY SHERIFF JOE LARIVE SAID THE VICTIM DAVID DAVIS HAD BEEN CARING FOR THE 16-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OF A DECEASED FRIEND. THE GIRL, MELINA PERRY, WAS MISSING AS WAS DEVON MEEKS, IDENTIFIED THEN AS HER BOYFRIEND. SHERIFF LARIVE SAID INFORMATION INDICATED THERE HAD BEEN AN APPARENT ONGOING DISPUTE BETWEEN MEEKS AND DAVID DAVIS. A FEW DAYS LATER, THE TWO TEENS WERE ARRESTED IN A STOLEN TRUCK IN OKLAHOMA. IN 2009, CHAMBERS COUNTY JUDGE JIMMY SYLVIA RULED MELINA PERRY COULD BE TRIED AS AN ADULT FOR HER GUARDIAN’S MURDER. NOW, DEVON MEEKS IS 21 AND MELINA PERRY IS 18. CHAMBERS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY CHERYL LIECK SAID BOTH MEEKS AND PERRY ARE TO BE TRIED TOGETHER ON APRIL 26^TH FOR DAVIS’ MURDER. THAT WILL BE IN JUDGE CARROLL WILBURN’S 344^TH DISTRICT COURT IN CHAMBERS COUNTY. MRS. LIECK SAID SHE HAS FILED A MOTION TO TRY THE PAIR OF ACCUSED KILLERS TOGETHER AND EXPECTS THAT MOTION WILL BE GRANTED. THE CHAMBERS COUNTY DA SAID THE REASON FOR THE DECISION TO TRY THE TWO AT THE SAME TIME WAS NOT JUST TO BE ECONOMICAL, BUT BECAUSE EVIDENCE INDICATES THEY WORKED TOGETHER CLOSELY IN COMMITTING THE MURDER. BOTH DEVON MEEKS AND MELINA PERRY HAVE REMAINED BEHIND BARS SINCE THEIR ARREST IN JULY OF 2008. DEVON MEEKS’S BOND IS SET AT $100,000 FOR THE MURDER CHARGE. MELINA PERRY IS CHARGED WITH MURDER, AS WELL AS UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, FABRICATING EVIDENCE AND ARSON. MS. PERRY’S BONDS TOTAL $225,000.