Davis was jealous rage after his girlfriend, Tonya Bishop, confided that she had had sex with another student. Davis became increasingly obsessed over a period of three months with hatred for the other boy. Davis' stepmother Phyllis thought this was "just like any other" teen-romance drama and assumed that "just like everybody else, he'd get over it."

His grades fell from A's to D's and F's. One day, after a glaring match with the boy in a hallway, Davis recalls, "it was just like something clicked in my head. I had been going downhill for so long. I got stuck thinking about all the pain I'd suffered. And I couldn't put all that out of my head." He went home, got his hunting rifle and ambushed Creson in the school parking lot.

David killed the boy.

Following the shooting, a friend said to Davis, "Man, you just flushed your life down the toilet." Davis replied, "Yes, but it's been fun."

"My life’s pretty much over with. I’ve got a life sentence, and there’s a young man that’s dead."