Chesterfield County

7000 block of Old Plantation Road

Stabbing

Domestic

Woman is charged in slaying of man / The victim was found dead in his home by a neighbor yesterday
By Bill Mckelway
Times-Dispatch Staff Writer

Monday,August 3, 2009

Chesterfield

In a trailer home filled with dogs and children, Patricia Pulliam said the arrest yesterday of her daughter after a domestic dispute a block away was years in the making.

Chesterfield County police yesterday charged Pulliam’s daughter, Tina Lynn Campbell, 33, with first-degree murder in the slaying of an occasional boyfriend she had just tried to move in with Saturday.

“My son had just said [Saturday] that one or the other of them was going to get killed,” Pulliam said yesterday.

Campbell was being held without bond last night in the death of Wayne Sidney “Red” Davis, 53. Police said he apparently died sometime early yesterday.

Police were unable to be more specific last night about the nature of Davis’ death or more precisely when it occurred.

He was found at 10:56 a.m. by a neighbor in his one-story home at the end of Old Plantation Road, police said. A knife was recovered at the scene.

Pulliam said Campbell and her three children had moved in with Davis on Saturday, renewing a relationship filled with violence.

Pulliam said she had told her daughter, who she said has a history of serious mental problems, that she was going to evict her.

“She needed a new place to live and went to Red’s,” Pulliam said.

Within hours, Campbell’s three children - ages 2, 4, and 10 - returned to Pulliam’s home.

Neighbors reported arguing and loud noises at Davis’ home throughout the evening Saturday.

Davis’ family members, many of whom live in homes on the dead-end road, said they had warned Campbell not to come back to Davis’ home because of a history of fights and other problems. Davis’ family said he received a head wound from Campbell during an incident in April.

“She wasn’t supposed to be back up here,” said Claudette Wiggins, a family friend of the Davis family.

Pulliam said police used a search warrant yesterday to recover her daughter’s clothes and other items.

Pulliam and her daughter live on disability checks, and Campbell, her mother said, never has held a job.

“Mental-health and social services in Chesterfield have tried to help her, but she has refused to do what the mental-health people and her doctor told her she needed to do. She would not take her medicines and would get very angry.”

Pulliam said her daughter was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder during her teenage years. The disorder results in wide mood swings and breaks with reality.

Davis worked in recent years as a plumber’s helper but had no car and lived alone in a small cottage; a faded American flag hung limply from a pole yesterday in the front yard as dozens of relatives gathered to mourn him at nearby homes.