Man accused of shooting girlfriend in Miami Twp.
A Montgomery County grand jury indicted a man on murder and other charges in the deadly shooting of his girlfriend at a Miami Twp. apartment in December.
Juvall Antonio Jenkins, 29, of Miami Twp., is facing two counts each of murder and felonious assault, according to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court records. He’s scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday.
Jenkins is accused of shooting and killing 29-year-old
Kayla Davis.
On Dec. 17, Miami Twp. police were dispatched to a report of a shot fired at Spring Hill Apartments, off Ohio 741, just north of Cox Arboretum.
Police used the trajectory of the bullet that struck the headboard of a bed to determine that the shot was fired inside another apartment, according to Miamisburg Municipal Court documents. The front door to that apartment was unlocked, and no one responded when police called for people to come out.
Officers determined from prior calls to the apartment that Davis lived there with her children and had a protection order against Jenkins, the father of the children, who also had lived there. Her car was parked outside, and a cellphone ping indicated her phone was last in the area of the apartment.
Officers reached Jenkins, who said he had no idea where Davis or the children were, but police later learned the children were with their grandmother, the document stated.
Inside the apartment, police found Davis deceased in a bathroom. She appeared to have been shot several times. Police also found four shell casings, according to the document.
Dispatchers later were notified by the Tennessee State Highway Patrol in Knoxville that Jenkins pulled up to a trooper on the side of Interstate 40 East and said he shot and possibly killed his girlfriend in Ohio.
A Miami Twp. detective spoke to the trooper, who said “Jenkins told him the address the incident happened at … and gave his girlfriend’s name,” the affidavit stated.