A nurse supervisor at a school in Mecklenburg County was arrested Tuesday for attempting to hire a man to murder her ex-husband, a federal criminal complaint shows.
Fathia-Anna Davis tried to hire a man to either kill her ex-husband or find someone to kill him last month, according to court documents.
The county health department, which employs Davis, said in a statement that she is suspended with no pay as of Wednesday, pending charge outcomes.
County Manager Dena Diorio has said she believes Davis was a supervisor working in the annex off North Tryon Street in the Hal Marshall Center.
Diorio also says she thinks Davis was previously employed by Carolinas Healthcare System but that the job was transferred to the county and Davis was transferred to the health department in Mecklenburg in 2013.
Diorio said during the transition, the agreement had been to just take Carolinas employees without making them reapply or go through a background check.
Diorio has also said the charges against Davis are unrelated to her job with Mecklenburg County and that the county is fully cooperating with police in the case.
A court case between Davis and her then husband was started in 2009 contesting child support and custody, according to court records. In 2011, the couple divorced. In 2012, a temporary restraining order was made from Davis against the ex-husband. She was charged that same year with misdemeanor simple assault against the man.
The Meeting
Davis was caught by police after she tried to meet with someone she believed would help kill her ex-husband.
The man Davis contacted alerted CMPD on Jan. 21 about the request. Detectives met with the man eight days later.
When the man Davis asked to kill her ex-husband said he wouldn’t, she asked he find someone who would. The man said Davis was persistent in her request, sending him multiple text messages asking the same thing.
The man told Davis he would introduce her to two men would might do the killing. The men were undercover detectives who met with Davis on Feb. 15.
After the introduction, Davis made an agreement to pay the undercover cops $4,000 for shooting and killing her ex-husband, according to court records. She took the detectives to the man’s house, showed them an old picture of him, and told them she’d take $300 out of an ATM for a deposit right then.
She also pointed our her ex-husband and the couple’s daughter at a grocery store when they appeared near the meeting place.
Davis was told by detectives to meet them the next week with $500 for deposit and a current photo of the target.
Davis met with the undercover officers that next Sunday, showing them the $4,000 and paying only the $500 for deposit, records said.
According to the detectives, they told Davis to contact them if she changed her mind and was given many opportunities to reverse the request.
