ST. LOUIS — Eleven days after being gunned down near an alley, David Davis didn't get a traditional funeral procession of family and friends. After bullets began flying outside the mortuary during his service, killing two men and critically injuring another, the 27-year-old father of three went to his grave with just the undertakers and the police, who escorted his hearse.
St. Louis activist pastor: Funeral home gunfire 'disturbing'
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 | 5:57 p.m. CST
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