MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — The 48-year-old unhappy customer accused of threatening a barber at gunpoint in Miami-Dade County is a convicted felon, records show.
Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies identified the gunman who shouted threats -- despite the presence of children -- on Nov. 25 at Square Biz in Perrine as Darious Davis, records show.
“The defendant was in custody on today’s date regarding unrelated charges,” a M-DSO deputy wrote on Nov. 29, according to an arrest report claiming he worked for “Transit.”
Inmate records show corrections booked David on Nov. 28 on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and he remained at the Metrowest Detention Center on Monday.
Samuel Wilson, the owner of Square Biz, shared surveillance video of the attack on Nov. 25. He told deputies Davis was a customer for about a year, according to the arrest report.
“He wasn’t a man when he had that gun,” Wilson told Local 10 News. “He slapped me in the head with it, choked me out.”
Court records show prosecutors filed the case over the weapon’s possession charge on Nov. 29 and the case over the attack at the barbershop on Nov. 30. He appeared in bond court on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30.
A judge ordered Davis to stay away from the victim and the Square Biz and ordered house arrest when released. His bond was $35,000.
David faced four charges over the attack: Aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with a firearm, use of a firearm to commit a felony, and improper exhibition of a weapon.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Zachary James was set to preside over the two new cases.
Records show Davis’s convictions include cocaine possession in 1993, armed robbery charges in 1993 and 1998, and burglary with assault in 1998.
Florida Department of Corrections records show he was in prison from June 7, 1999 to Oct. 24, 1997; from March 17, 1999 to Oct. 8, 2004; and from Nov. 27, 2006 to Sept. 1, 2017.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.
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