A Detroit man pleaded guilty on Tuesday, October 27, in federal court to the attempted murder of ATF special agents, admitting a November 2025 shooting spree across Detroit and a gunfight with federal agents who came to arrest him, the US Department of Justice said.
Source: US Department of Justice, Eastern District of Michigan
Terrance Markyce Davis, 34, of Detroit, also pleaded guilty to multiple firearms offences, US Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. announced. With the plea, Davis faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 17 years in federal prison and a maximum possible sentence of life imprisonment. He will be sentenced on March 3, 2027.
Source: US Department of Justice, Eastern District of Michigan
Nine days of shootings across Detroit
According to court filings and Davis's own admissions at the plea hearing, between November 5 and November 13, 2025, Davis fired multiple rounds into houses and vehicles across Detroit, seriously injuring one person. WDIV ClickOnDetroit, which reviewed the federal court documents at the time, reported that investigators linked Davis to eight different shootings in that nine-day window, all involving the same gun.
Source: WDIV ClickOnDetroit
The trail to Davis was built from video and phone records. WDIV reported that officers tracked a Ford Edge on the city's Greenlight camera network after a shooting on Oakfield Avenue near 7 Mile Road, compared restaurant surveillance video with Davis's licence photo, and on November 13 obtained a federal warrant for real-time and historical location data from his phone; surveillance then placed the phone near the Oakfield shooting scene on November 5. An ATF expert also found that the ammunition used in the shooting had been manufactured outside Michigan, giving the case its federal interstate-commerce basis, WDIV reported.
Source: WDIV ClickOnDetroit
The November 14 chase: flight, a carjacking and gunfire
On November 14, 2025, ATF special agents obtained a warrant charging Davis with being a felon in possession of ammunition in connection with one of the shootings. When agents moved to arrest him, prosecutors say, Davis fled in his vehicle, carjacked a motorist, and exchanged gunfire with ATF agents. Michigan State Police troopers disabled the stolen vehicle; Davis ran on foot, still armed with a handgun, and was shot by Detroit Police officers before being taken into custody.
Source: US Department of Justice, Eastern District of Michigan
Ballistics testing later confirmed that the firearm Davis was carrying as he fled was the same weapon used to shoot at the ATF agents and the same firearm used in the earlier series of shootings, the Justice Department said. WDIV reported that the pistol recovered from Davis was a pink SCCY model CPX-1 9mm, and that fired cartridge cases from it were matched to the November shootings; the chase itself lasted about 40 minutes, the station reported.
Source: WDIV ClickOnDetroit
"This defendant terrorized our streets and then tried to murder the federal agents who came to stop him," US Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said. James Deir, ATF's Detroit special agent in charge, called Davis "a poster child for what ATF and its partners prioritize: identifying and apprehending serial shooters in our communities."
His record — and the man accused of giving him the gun
Court documents cited by WDIV state that Davis was on felony probation at the time of the shootings, under which he was barred from possessing firearms or ammunition. He had been convicted in 2016 and again in 2018 of receiving and concealing stolen property, and in 2024 of being a felon in possession of a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon, the station reported.
Source: WDIV ClickOnDetroit
The case also produced a second defendant. WDIV reported in December 2025 that Robert Daugherty III was federally charged with receiving a stolen firearm and being a felon in possession, accused of giving a gun he allegedly stole to Davis — the man investigators had by then linked to the string of shootings.
Source: WDIV ClickOnDetroit
What happens next
Davis remains in custody ahead of his March 3, 2027 sentencing, where the court must impose at least the 17-year mandatory minimum. The case was investigated by the ATF, the Detroit Police Department and the Michigan State Police, and is being prosecuted by Assistant US Attorneys Andrew R. Picek, John Turrettini and Jeremiah Smith. For Detroit neighbourhoods along corridors like 7 Mile Road — and for the truckers and delivery drivers who work those streets daily — the plea closes the court chapter of a nine-day shooting series that, prosecutors say, ended only when three agencies chased it down together.