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‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ A celebrity robbery in Vegas. A murder in Cali. Before attempting an at-home abortion in Maricopa, Shantrice Wilkerson’s story reads like fiction. It’s not.
But ask Wilkerson how she got there, and she’ll rewind the story well past Vegas. “All I cared about was school and sports,” Wilkerson, originally from Southern California, said in an email reviewed by InMaricopa . “It helped me cope with the sad truth my parents were dope heads — heroin, to be exact.” Wilkerson said she was taken from her parents at age 11 and placed in 43 foster homes due to frequent runaways. She was eventually accepted to San Jose University in the Bay Area. “My husband was a street n***a at that time,” she said of Eugene Davis, 42, with whom she lives on Thornberry Lane in Homestead. “I went off to college and had high hopes, thinking once my husband saw how much better life would be if he left the streets alone, he’d leave and come with me.” While at a house party — everybody was drinking, smoking and popping ecstasy pills — people started saying gang-related stuff, and a gun But three months into her studies, she said Davis called her — crying. “While at a house party — everybody was drinking, smoking and popping ecstasy pills — people started saying gang-related stuff, and a gun was pulled out,” Wilkerson said. “My husband started tussling and the gun fell. My husband picked it up and made one shot. That one shot punctured a young man in his arm, hitting a main vein, and he bled out to death.” InMaricopa independently confirmed Davis was convicted in a Sacramento County homicide case. He remains on parole. “That day he was sentenced, I lost a big part of my heart,” Wilkerson said. “I went back to college but didn’t really care about school or sports anymore. I was sad, upset, frustrated and a lot more emotions.” Wilkerson said she was later kicked out of college after a fight that landed her in jail for eight months. InMaricopa could not independently verify that claim. What happens in Vegas... Wilkerson said she moved back to her native Los Angeles after serving time and signed with a modeling agency, appearing in music videos and commercials. was pulled out.” SHANTRICE WILKERSON
BY ELIAS WEISS
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MARICOPA WOMAN WHO ONCE TRIED TO ABORT HER PREGNANCY BY DROWNING it in liquor and lied to police about her fugitive, homicidal husband has a past as wild as it sounds — one that includes strip clubs, a robbery with rapper Coolio’s son and a headline-making arrest that made it all the way to TMZ.
Shantrice Wilkerson, 40, was once a stripper in Las Vegas. Before she was arrested in Maricopa last year, she served time for helping Grtis Ivey — son of the late Gangsta’s Paradise rapper Coolio — pull off a robbery on the Las Vegas Strip.
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