CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte woman will serve a 10-year prison term for attempting to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband.
Judge Robert Conrad, Jr. sentenced Fathia Davis, 48, on Thursday for a 2015 murder-for-hire plot.
In January of 2015, a concerned citizen informed police that Davis had asked him repeatedly to find her someone she could hire to kill her ex-husband.
That February, undercover officers posing as potential hitmen met Davis in a parking lot in Charlotte. During that meeting, Davis agreed to pay the undercover officers $4,000 to shoot her ex-husband in the head. She also paid the officers $500 as a down-payment for the murder.
In June of 2015, a federal jury convicted Davis of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire.
In announcing Thursday’s sentence, Judge Conrad said this was not a suggested crime and went on to say that this is not the first time that Davis had tried to kill a human being, noting that he believed the she tried to poison her ex-husband on a previous occasion.
Davis has been in in federal custody since June 2015. Upon designation of a federal facility she will be transferred to the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Federal sentences are served without the possibility of parole.
