Brandon Levi Davis
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 31-year-old Yale man accused of attempting to hit his father with a car remains jailed on $20,000 bail pending a Sept. 11 court appearance at which he can seek a preliminary hearing on a felony charge.
If convicted of domestic assault with a car as a dangerous weapon after a former felony conviction, Brandon Levi Davis could be given a prison term ranging from 10 years to life due to his criminal record. He has been ordered to have no contact with his father.
Davis was arrested at 1:30 pm on Aug. 3, about 38 minutes after Yale Police Chief Phillip Kelly and Officer Alesha Hammons were called to a physical domestic incident in progress in the area of C Street and Charleston Avenue, an affidavit alleged.
“Upon arrival at approximately 12:55 pm Chief Kelly made contact with a subject at C Street and Beaumont that was on foot dressed in a dark blue shirt and blue jeans with brown hair,” later identified as Brandon Davis, Officer Hammons alleged in her affidavit.
Officer Hammons continued to C and Charleston to talk to two men in the street — a neighbor and the victim, the affidavit alleged.
Both men said that Brandon Davis attempted to run over his father with his vehicle several times, the affidavit alleged.
The father said that his son “had come over to speak with him while he was working on his truck,” the affidavit alleged.
“Brandon Davis started talking about God, what Brandon Davis felt he was owed by society, and other things, with the conversation getting heated,” the father told the officer, according to her affidavit.
The father said that at one point his son got into his car and attempted several times to run him over, which resulted in the son hitting the truck that his father was working on and high centering the car on a stump in the yard, the affidavit alleged.
The father “tried to defend himself with a club, and Brandon Davis took off running northbound on C Street prior to our arrival,” the officer alleged in her affidavit.
The neighbor said that he saw someone attempting to run over the defendant’s father in a car, but instead hit the truck, the affidavit alleged. The neighbor said that the father “attempted to defend himself with ‘a big piece of wood’ while yelling and cussing at the person inside the car,” the affidavit alleged.
While police were speaking with the father and his neighbor, the son took off on foot and was located around Erie Street and F Street at about 1:28 pm, the affidavit alleged.
Officer Hammons alleged in her affidavit, “I made contact with Brandon Davis and attempted to arrest him for attempted aggravated assault and battery with a deadly weapon. He pushed me yelling ‘F… you’ and took off running westbound on foot.
“A short foot pursuit followed, where he tripped and fell. I pulled my taser and advised him to roll over and put his hands behind his back before I tased him.
“While issuing instructions to him, Chief Kelly arrived on scene and placed him in cuffs as I had him at taser point.”
At the time of the incident in Yale, the son was on five years’ probation for eluding/attempting to elude a police officer in Pawnee County in 2019, court records show.
