![]() ![]() The judge declared a mistrial regarding this final count, and the shooter was finally found guilty of first-degree murder in his retrial, where he earned a life sentence in prison without parole, in addition to another 90 years. The shooter was found guilty on three counts of attempted murder, but not on murder in the first degree. One of Davis’s friends listened to the man, but Davis asked that the music be turned back up, at which point the man was heard saying, “You aren’t going to talk to me like that.” He then took out a pistol and started shooting at Davis and his friends, killing Davis. ![]() Davis and his friends were listening to loud hip-hop at a gas station when an armed white man parked next to them and instructed them to turn down the music. Dear Martin is based in part on the death of Jordan Davis, a seventeen-year-old black boy who was shot and killed by a white man in Jacksonville, Florida in 2012. ![]()
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