Boxing star Gervonta Davis avoids jail time for hit-and-run that injured four

Gervonta Davis, the three-division world champion and one of boxing’s biggest stars, has avoided jail time for a hit-and-run crash that left four people hospitalized, including a pregnant woman.

Baltimore circuit court judge Althea M Handy sentenced the 28-year-old fighter to 90 days of home detention followed by three years’ probation on Friday at the Elijah E Cummings Courthouse, only 13 days after Davis stopped Ryan García in the seventh round of the year’s most anticipated fight.

Davis, who is unbeaten in 29 professional bouts with 27 knockouts, will serve out the sentence at the home of longtime trainer Calvin Ford, the Guardian has learned. He must also complete 200 hours of community service.

Davis was behind the wheel of a 2020 Lamborghini Urus SUV with two other passengers at around 1.53am on 5 November 2020 when it ran a red light, struck a 2004 Toyota Solara and crashed into the fence of a 7-Eleven at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr and Washington boulevards in the city’s Ridgely’s Delight neighborhood. All three then fled in another car that arrived on the scene, authorities said.

Following Davis’s guilty pleas to four counts stemming from the incident last year, Baltimore circuit judge Melissa M Phinn rejected a deal that would have allowed him to serve 60 days of unsupervised home detention after one of the people who was injured, Jyair Smith, spoke out against the deal.

“I begged Mr Gervonta Davis, I looked him in his eyes,” Smith said. “I said, ‘I have to get home to my daughter, I’m pregnant.’ He never once came over to help me.”

Davis had faced a maximum of 50 months in prison if found guilty on all remaining charges in the case.

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