Woman gets 30 years for boyfriend’s killing

A 19-year-old Little Rock woman who told police her boyfriend accidentally killed himself has accepted a 30-year prison sentence after admitting to fatally shooting him herself.

Sentencing papers filed on Monday show Madison Laine Poindexter pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, reduced from first-degree murder, in exchange for the sentence imposed by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cathi Compton.

The plea agreement was negotiated by deputy prosecutor Victoria Wadley and public defender Jason Kordsmeier. The sentence is the maximum for the Class A felony charge.

Court files show Poindexter called 911 mid-morning on March 30, telling emergency operators to send help to 813 Valmar because her boyfriend, 32-year-old Alfrisco Jerod Davis, had accidentally shot himself in the head.

“We was like playing with each other and he was holding it,” Poindexter told emergency dispatchers. “We was playing … and we were both saying like, if you don’t love me, I’ll shoot myself and he pulled the trigger by accident. We took the bullet out the chamber and we took the clip out.”

Poindexter had blood on her hands when police arrived. She was standing outside an RV camper with Davis dead inside, despite the efforts of rescue workers to save him. Police found and seized a pistol.

During questioning, Poindexter told police she and Davis had been a couple for about 18 months and living in the trailer, which belonged to Davis’ friends, for the past month. She said the couple had planned to get an apartment together in Benton.

But she also said that Davis, a married father of two, was going to get back with his wife. Poindexter further told investigators that the couple began “play fighting” like they’ve done several times before over the past month.

She said Davis got out his gun, removed the clip, pulled back the slide and put the weapon to her head and told her, “if you leave me, I’m gonna kill you. This break ain’t permanent.”

Poindexter told investigators that she got the gun from Davis — because he allowed her to grab it — and put the weapon to his chin, telling him, “if he leaves me … I’ll kill him.

“And then I said I love you and when he said, I love you, I pulled the trigger and he died,” court files show.

Poindexter, who hasn’t been in serious trouble with the law before, said she wasn’t mad and that she had not intended to shoot him on purpose.