SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KGTV) – An Emerald Hills man is mourning the death of his 28-year-old daughter, his second daughter murdered in an act of gun violence.<\/p>\n
Kaelynn Davis was riding in the passenger seat of a car Saturday evening in a Chula Vista neighborhood when police say another car pulled alongside with a shooter opening fire.<\/p>\n
Her father, Carl Davis, shared a photo of Kaelynn smiling and celebrating her birthday last Wednesday at his home \u2014 just three days before she was killed.<\/p>\n
“She was as happy as all get out,” Carl said.<\/p>\n
Hours after the two attended a Pop Warner football game together, Kaelynn was dead.<\/p>\n
Carl said Kaelynn and her boyfriend were driving to drop off food for his daughter when they pulled over near Steiner Drive and Higgins Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cA car pulled alongside and just unleashed a blast of bullet fire,” Carl said. “In the process, he ducked.”<\/p>\n
Carl said 8 to 10 shots struck the driver’s side of the car, and one struck the passenger side.<\/p>\n
The two drove to a hospital, but Kaelynn did not survive a bullet lodged in her heart. Her boyfriend, whom Carl talked to, was shot twice but was released the next day.<\/p>\n
Carl remembered his daughter as someone full of life.<\/p>\n
“She was the life of the party,” Carl said.<\/p>\n
He acknowledged Kaelynn had struggled in recent years.<\/p>\n
“She’s like, ‘Dad, but I’m not using any drugs,’ but I said, ‘You are around the wrong people,'” Carl said.<\/p>\n
For Carl, the loss is a devastating echo of the past. In 2005, I spoke with him outside a Valencia Park home as he waited to learn the fate of his daughter Sasha, a mother of 3.<\/p>\n
“This is the most horrifying thing I’ve ever been through,” Carl said at the time.<\/p>\n
Sasha was one of two people shot and killed during a home invasion. The shooter was later convicted.<\/p>\n
Now, more than two decades after that loss, Carl is mourning again.<\/p>\n
“Not again. Not again. It almost takes away your will to live,” Carl said.<\/p>\n
Kaelynn was his only other child.<\/p>\n
When asked what he hopes comes from the case, Carl’s answer was simple.<\/p>\n
“Just justice,” Carl said.<\/p>\n
Carl is making an appeal for information as investigators search for Kaelynn’s killer. While a motive for the shooting is not known, he had a message about the consequences of the people you choose to surround yourself with.<\/p>\n
“The choices that they make \u2026 the ultimate consequence of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people is death,” Carl said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crime Stopper at 888-580-8477,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KGTV) – An Emerald Hills man is mourning the death of his 28-year-old daughter, his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5364,1331,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-438216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-gun-violence","tag-murder","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}