Suspect charged for second time with shooting at occupied Mobile police car
A man arrested for shooting at an occupied police vehicle in 2022, only to have the charges dropped when a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to support probable cause, has now been indicted for the crime by a Mobile Grand Jury, according to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office.
Valeido L. Davidson, 33, was taken into custody Thursday by the Mobile County District Attorney’s Task Force. He was booked into Mobile Metro Jail, charged with two counts of attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle.
Davidson was arrested last September after two Mobile police officers in 1600 block of Flicker Street said an unknown male began firing at their vehicle, as well as two unoccupied buildings, in what Mobile police chief Paul Prine said was an “unprovoked” attack on the officers, adding that the two officers did not fire back.
But two months later, a Mobile County judge ruled police did not have probable cause to arrest Davidson and he was set free.
The district attorney’s office, however, presented the case to a grand jury, which returned the indictment against Davidson, leading to his arrest Thursday.
A second man, 27-year-old Travis Jamark Lawson, was also indicted on the same charges. He was taken into custody by the task force Wednesday.
Both Davidson and Lawson remained in jail as of Thursday afternoon, awaiting initial court apperances.
Another man, Tymetrick Devonte James, was arrested along with Davidson last September, but a grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict him, according to the Mobile Metro Jail docket.