Mother of 16-year-old victim of murder-suicide remembers her daughter
Funeral planned for Thursday
Carlin Davis, according to her mother, was a little girl with big dreams. She was a typical teenager who was into fashion and loved to take selfies.
"She was getting her permit Monday,” said Amy Davis, as she remembers her daughter.
Carlin was shot and killed in a murder-suicide Sunday morning.
“She was supposed to get her permit yesterday," said Amy, on Tuesday.
But there was no test, no celebration. Davis is instead planning a funeral for her only child.
"It's so hard. I can't believe that I'm burying my 16-year-old baby,” Amy said. “No matter how old she was, she was still a baby, my baby, and someone took her from me. Its not fair, it's not right. She didn't do anything wrong. She was an innocent child."
Carlin had been staying with Amy's sister, Niki Davis.
Police were called to the Trimble County home on Garriott Court early Sunday morning.
Police say Davis' ex-boyfriend, Robert Harmon shot Niki Davis. Niki, according to family, was in the process of moving out.
Police say Harmon, 48, then fatally shot Carlin before turning the gun on himself.
"I want everyone to know how wonderful she was, that's what she deserves. She deserves a better memory than the crime scene," Amy Davis continued. "She loved kids, she loved animals, she loved people."
Davis says she also enjoyed cheerleading and dancing. Her daughter had plans to become a fashion designer.
"Drawings, sketches, fabrics she wanted to sew, she wanted to do it all," she said.
But Carlin Davis will never get the chance to go to college, or even get that driver's permit she was studying for.
Breaking into tears her mother admits, "It does not make sense to me."
"God gave me a wonderful child and now he has her back,” she said. “Too soon, but he has her back.”
Niki Davis remains at University Hospital. She has undergone several surgeries but family said she is expected to recover.
Carlin Davis will be laid to rest Thursday.
Visitation begins at 10 a.m. at Stratton Karsteter Funeral Home in Versailles with services to follow.