Casey Jemar Davis

Convicted and sentenced. Davis pleaded guilty in Hennepin County District Court to second-degree unintentional murder and two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon for the July 2022 shooting and was sentenced there to 294 months in January 2026; on October 22, 2026, a federal court sentenced him to 168 months for felon-in-possession of a firearm, with 24 additional months for violating supervised release.

Introduction

Casey Jemar Davis, 32, is a documented member of Minneapolis’s HAM Crazy street gang who opened fire with a switch-equipped Glock in a crowded downtown parking lot in July 2022, killing one man and hitting two innocent bystanders — and who was sentenced on October 22, 2026, to 168 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, stacked with a consecutive 24-month term for violating his supervised release from a prior federal gun conviction . Chief U.S. District Judge Eric C. Tostrud imposed the sentence, which included a 12-month credit from the 180-month statutory maximum for time already served in custody .

Background Information

The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. on July 28, 2022, in the parking lot of a sports bar near North 4th Street and North 1st Avenue in downtown Minneapolis, after a fight inside the bar, as Davis argued with a man identified in court documents as Person 1 and several others beside an SUV . Davis carried a .40-caliber Glock fitted with a switch — a machinegun conversion device allowing fully automatic fire with a single trigger pull — and an inserted high-capacity magazine; Person 1, co-defendant Cleveland Longmire, and another man were also armed . Davis was already a felon at the time, on supervised release from a June 2018 federal firearms conviction that had drawn a 50-month sentence .

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

As Person 1 turned and ran, Davis shot him in the back, legs, and arms multiple times, killing him; two bystanders in the lot were also struck by Davis’s gunfire . Surveillance video captured Longmire raising his firearm and firing toward the ground, while Person 1’s own gun was never discharged . Davis drove from the scene as police arrived while Longmire walked away; a warrant-authorized search of the SUV turned up both firearms under the driver’s seat, and more than twenty .40-caliber casings in the lot were forensically matched to Davis’s gun, alongside three 9mm casings from Longmire’s . Davis then spent nearly two and a half years as a fugitive until police located and arrested him in St. Paul on February 20, 2025 — carrying, at that arrest, yet another firearm equipped with a switch and an extended magazine .

Public Reaction and Consequences

In January 2026, Davis was sentenced to 294 months in Hennepin County District Court after pleading guilty to second-degree unintentional murder for the killing and to two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon; Longmire had already received 90 months on January 9, 2024 . At the federal sentencing, Judge Tostrud called Davis’s conduct “brutal, inhumane, and sadistic,” found he represents “a great threat to public safety,” and cited his “total disregard for the law and the safety of the community” . U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen said “This defendant had no regard for life and killed a man while shooting his firearm in a crowded place,” and Minneapolis Interim Chief Bill Peterson added that “Davis fired a machine gun into a crowd, killing one person and injuring two others,” warranting “the highest federal sentence allowed by law” on top of the state term . ATF Special Agent in Charge Joseph Persails said the sentence “holds the defendant accountable for firing more than 20 rounds from a firearm equipped with a machinegun conversion device in a crowded parking lot, killing one person and putting many others at significant risk” .

Current Status

Davis is serving the 168-month federal sentence plus the consecutive 24-month supervised-release violation term, alongside his 294-month state sentence, with the FBI, ATF, Minneapolis Police, and the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force credited in the case . The combined terms mean his earliest releases are decades away, and the felon-in-possession conviction ensures the switch-equipped Glock alone carried federal consequences even after the murder count resolved in state court .

Impact on Their Career/Life

Davis’s file — a 2018 federal gun case, a 2022 automatic-rifle homicide, two and a half years on the run, and a second switch gun on him at arrest — is the profile prosecutors now cite for why machinegun conversion devices draw maximum-exposure federal charges. His case pairs the HAM Crazy gang’s record of public-venue shootings with the message from the sentencing bench that firing a converted Glock into a crowd will be met with the harshest available term.

Sources

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota, “HAM Crazy Gang Member Sentenced to 168 Months’ Imprisonment for Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm,” October 23, 2026 — source