This Sunday\u2019s services at a Fort Worth church played all of Lataivia Davis\u2019 favorite prayer songs.<\/p>\n
Davis, also known by family and friends as \u201cTT,\u201d was fatally shot in an apparent road rage incident on Interstate 20 in southwest Fort Worth early Thursday.<\/p>\n
Family and community members surrounded Davis\u2019 mother at The Vision Church of Fort Worth on Aug. 16; overseer Michelle Jones braced the grieving mother as she cried, \u201cMy baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old worked as an art teacher\u2019s aide at E. Ray Elementary School in Everman. Community members described her as a deeply kind and joyful person.<\/p>\n
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Lataivia Davis, 24, was fatally shot in an apparent road rage incident in southwest Fort Worth early Thursday. Family photo Road rage shooting<\/p>\n
Fort Worth police responded to the shooting<\/a> about 6:30 a.m. near the 3700 block of I-20. Officers found Davis with a gunshot wound, police said.<\/p>\n On Thursday night, police announced the arrest<\/a> of 37-year-old Patrick Lawrence, who faces a murder charge in the shooting death of Davis.<\/p>\n According to police, witnesses reported that Lawrence and Davis got involved in \u201can apparent road rage situation.\u201d Lawrence pulled up to the woman\u2019s car and fired at least one shot, police said. Davis was shot in the torso and died at the scene, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. In an interview with homicide detectives, Lawrence admitted to shooting at Davis\u2019 ca<\/a>r, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.<\/p>\n \u2018We were inseparable\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cMy sister was very sheltered, so she really didn\u2019t talk much around people,\u201d Taivion Davis said in a conversation with the Star-Telegram. \u201cBut once she got comfortable enough with you, she was one of the best people that you could ever have in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n Taivion Davis said she and her younger sister looked so much alike that people often thought they were twins. They were a year and a half apart, but they would tell everyone they were twins. \u201cI\u2019m her big sister, but we loved each other. We were so, so close. We were inseparable,\u201d the sister said.<\/p>\n \u201cShe really has made an impact on a lot of people,\u201d Taivion Davis said. \u201cI receive a lot of phone calls, text messages, and emails every day about her. Everybody is hurt by this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n Her little sister went to college in 2020 for forensic psychology, but later on learned that her true passion was working with little kids and that is why Lataivia transitioned from that to the school, Taivion Davis said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are so many things I wish I could say to you, so many memories I wish I could relive. I wish I could hug you one more time,\u201d Taivion Davis said in a letter to her sister that she read aloud at the church. \u201cI wish I could hear you laugh one more time. I wish I had one more chance to tell you how much I love you and how much you mean to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUntil we meet again, rest peacefully, my beautiful little sister. You fought your battles, you lived your life, and now you can finally rest. I love you more than words can express, and I miss you every day. And no matter how much time passes, you will always be my little sister,\u201d Taivion Davis said as her voice broke in tears.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a family church, and a family sticks together in good times and bad times; this is a rough moment for us,\u201d Bishop Tyrone Jones said.<\/p>\n Tyrone and Michelle Jones said Lataivia Davis and her family had been a part of the ministry from when she was a toddler.<\/p>\n Michelle Jones described Lataivia Davis as a \u201cquiet storm,\u201d someone who was quiet but very joyful and would \u201cgive you the shirt off her back.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe was young, just turned 24 in July, and her life was just really starting. She had a love, and she had moved out on her own,\u201d Michelle Jones said.<\/p>\n \u201cFor you to just take that life, think about what you do before you do it. My mom always used to say that because your actions, you can\u2019t take those back; your words, you can\u2019t take them back. But it\u2019s better to say something than to take a life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n This story was originally published August 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n