SYRACUSE -- Syracuse police were confronted with an armed man while responding to a domestic dispute on Lodi Street Thursday afternoon.
Police spokesman Sgt. Thomas Connellan says officers Matthew Liadka and Jason Sands were sent to 2511 Lodi Street after the Onondaga County 911 center received a call from that location, and a woman could be heard crying and a disturbance was heard in the background.
As the officers entered the multi-family home they could hear a man shouting from inside an apartment that he was going to kill someone. They say they then heard a shot, and entered the apartment with guns drawn. There they found Jermaine White, 32, with a gun in his hand. Officer Liadka and White ordered White to drop the gun, and he complied.
Connellan says White and his girlfriend, Donesia Davis, 32, were arguing over text messages when the dispute turned physical. When Davis tried to call 911, White took the phone from her. She fled to another room and again dialed 911. Connellan says White then took the phone from her.
Davis tried to retrieve an illegal hand gun she knew that White had. The pair struggled over the gun, it dropped to the floor, Davis picked up the gun and fired one shot into the wall. White took the gun away from her, and that was when police entered the apartment.
Both White and Davis were taken into custody. White was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree because he admitted the illegal weapon was his, and he originally brought it in the house. Davis was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and reckless endangerment.
