SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - The Office of the Chatham County District Attorney announced the guilty verdict of Gerald Davis for the murder of a 30-year-old mother, Sylvasha Lester , in August of 2023.

Davis was arrested just a month after the shooting, in September of 2023.

His co-defendant is Erika Michelle Cox-Cody. Her case is still ongoing in the courts.

According to testimony, Davis and his friends got into a fight at a local club with another group. After police broke up the fight, an unflattering video of Davis was posted to social media.

That video was shared with WTOC’s Madalyn Bierster. It shows Davis intoxicated and appearing to be passed out on a couch with a brown substance on his hand, indicating he defecated on himself.

Later that night, Davis was seen in a Facebook live

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