Chronicle: Jesse Dávila dies from police bullets after dispute over domestic violence

• Jesse Dávila died in Edinburg, Texas, by gunshots by a police officer and they are already investigating whether the agent committed an excess.
• Dávila, 29, was allegedly attacking a woman when an officer arrived to arrest him and killed him.
• The Texas Attorney General’s Office is investigating the case to find out if the officer exceeded his duties by shooting him.

Jesse Dávila died in Edinburg,

Texas, of several bullets from a policeman and many of the details surrounding his death are a mystery.

Dávila, 29, was shot dead by an officer of the Edinburg Police Department (EPD) and his death has caused the Texas Attorney General open an investigation to find out what happened.

The death of Dávila at the hands of a police officer has sparked a wave of outrage in the Hispanic community in southeastern Texas, almost on the border with Mexico, where the events took place.

Edinburg is a city in the Hidalgo County, north of McAllen, and with a population of just over 100,000, almost all of Hispanic descent.

The chronicle that follows is taken from the legal documents of the case being investigated by the Texas Rangers, the state police of the Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS, for its acronym in English).

On Monday, January 11, 2021, EPD Officer Álex Cruz responded to an emergency call at 4:49 a.m. to go to the house marked 1709 Orlando St., Apartment B.

The area in which the incident was reported is a new residential development where mostly young middle class families live in the northwest of the Edinburg metropolitan area, with hundreds of townhomes and in a very peaceful area.

The report that Officer Cruz received was that at that address there was a serious case of violent «domestic dispute» between a man and a woman. Who made the report to the emergency number is not specified.

The identity of the woman involved in the case of the violent domestic dispute will not be revealed in this story to protect her privacy.

What happened next is the testimony of Officer Cruz, since the other involved in the case, Jesse Dávila, is dead. There is no testimony of the woman.

Officer Cruz stated that when he arrived at the place of the report, he heard desperate screams coming from within the department from a woman.

Given the seriousness of what could be happening, Officer Cruz decided to enter the house through the front door of the house, which he found locked but unlocked, so he entered with the weapon ready.

When the officer entered the house, he heard the screams of the woman coming from the main room and he ran there just to see a woman lying on a mattress on the floor and a man on top of her holding her with both hands.

The police officer ordered the man to leave the woman and raise his hands, all while pointing the gun at him. Officer Cruz does not mention in his report that Jesse Dávila, as he was later identified, was armed.

However, according to the patrol car, the man ignored his presence and the orders he was giving him, he turned and walked towards the policeman.

The patrolman, seeing that the man was coming over him, pushed him and he fell to the ground. The woman took advantage of that moment to run out of the room, go to some children who were in another room of the house and run out of the house.

Dávila got up and continued walking towards the officer, closing the distance between the two more and more. Officer Cruz stated that when he saw the man walking towards him, he feared for his life and fired several shots to stop the alleged threat.

Jesse Dávila was wounded by several bullets and the patrolman Álex Cruz requested support from the paramedics of the Edinburg Fire Department (EFD) for an emergency transfer to a hospital.

However, doctors fighting to save Dávila’s life were unable to do anything for the man, who died from various gunshot wounds in the emergency room.

Dávila was the father of four children, although it is not specified whether they were the boys who were in the house with the woman when the events occurred. The relationship with the woman who allegedly attacked is not detailed in the documents either.

In Texas criminal records, it is revealed that Jesse Dávila was charged, in 2019 and 2017, with two cases of aggravated assault against a woman and was detained for those crimes. Now it will be the TxDPS agents who will determine if EPD officer Álex Cruz incurred in excess of his duties by shooting him and causing his death.

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