FILE – In this Oct. 24, 2015 file photo, Davon Lymon, an ex-convict charged in the Oct. 21 shooting of Albuquerque police officer Daniel Webster, is escorted by Albuquerque police officers after being released from a hospital in Albuquerque, N.M. Chief Gorden Eden, Jr. said Thursday, Oct. 29 in a statement that Officer Webster died at 2:30 a.m. Thursday. He was awarded Albuquerque police’s Uniformed Officer of the Year in 2013 and served as a representative on the local police union’s board of directors.
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Officer Webster was a almost nine-year APD veteran. He had worked as impact detective and was serving as a patrol officer.
Since the shooting, Eden and other law enforcement officials have called on the Legislature to enact sentencing reforms and increase resources for police and prosecutors in high-crime areas, contending the man accused of shooting Webster shouldn’t have been on the streets the night he opened fire. “Every contact with every citizen he made he definitely made a lasting impression”.
“It was impossible to know him and not love him”, she said through tears.
Webster was shot six times by Davon Lymon, 34, whom he had stopped in southeast Albuquerque on October 21 for riding a motorcycle that appeared to have a stolen license plate, according to a criminal complaint. “He would respond to make a difference”. Officer Webster had placed one handcuff on the subject’s left wrist when the man pretended to be injured by complaining that his right shoulder was hurt.
Lymon was taken to the hospital after his arrest due to dog bites to his hand and released into federal custody two days later. The 34-year-old suspect has been in and out of the court system for years and pleaded guilty more than a decade ago to a voluntary manslaughter charge.
Webster’s wife is a deputy with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. On Tuesday a federal judge ordered Lymon held until trial, according to court documents.
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Investigators say Lymon has an extensive violent criminal history, including a murder charge in 2001.
