Mom sent kid to day care with Glock in lunch box because ‘she does not carry a purse’: Police

Shanae D. Davis (PBCSO), Jackson

Shanae D. Davis (PBCSO), Jackson’s Daycare and the lunchbox in which she allegedly left her gun (WPEC screenshots)

A 39-year-old mother in Florida was arrested after she allegedly sent her child to day care with a Glock 43 9 mm handgun stashed inside of his lunchbox. Shanae D. Davis was taken into custody last week and charged with one count of felony child neglect without causing great bodily harm and one misdemeanor count of allowing a minor to obtain a firearm and take it to school, court documents reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a probable cause affidavit, an officer with the Riviera Beach Police Department at about noon on March 14, 2024, responded to a day care in the area regarding a “lost property found” call.

Police said that a teacher at the day care, the name of which was redacted in the document, had called the emergency dispatcher and “advised that she had just found a gun inside of one of the children’s lunch boxes.”

West Palm Beach, Florida CBS affiliate WPEC reported that the name of the facility was Jackson’s Daycare Center in the 1200 block of W31st Street in Riviera Beach.

Upon arriving at the scene, the officer made contact with the teacher, who advised that she had already contacted Davis, the mother of the armed child, and returned the firearm to her. The officer then made contact with Davis and she advised him that the gun was now safely stored in the glove compartment of her vehicle. The officer confiscated the black and gray weapon from Davis.

Davis then spoke to police about the events that led to her child ending up with the firearm in their lunchbox.

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