Teen Admits Two St. Louis Area Carjackings

ST. LOUIS – A man on Monday admitted committing two carjackings in the St. Louis area a year apart.

Ramon D. Davis, 19, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to two counts of carjacking and two counts of brandishing and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Davis admitted stealing a Mazda 3 at gunpoint in 2021 and a little over a year later, a Mercedes SUV.

On Nov. 7, 2021, Davis, Montrell Jackson and a juvenile male were walking past an alley when they saw an older man unloading his 2006 Mazda 3 and decided to carjack the man. Davis was armed with a stolen handgun. Jackson was also armed with a handgun. They demanded the victim’s keys, then sped off down the alley.

Hours later, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center cameras spotted the stolen Mazda. After a chase involving both St. Louis police and officers from the Hazelwood Police Department, Davis crashed and was arrested after hiding under a semitrailer nearby. Officers recovered two handguns from the stolen car.

On Nov. 11, 2022, Davis and others were in a stolen BMW when they saw a 2017 Mercedes GLS550 SUV parked in front of a CVS on Watson Road in Webster Groves. Davis had a red/burgundy AR-style pistol and confronted an occupant of the Mercedes with it before pushing her to the ground. Davis and one of the others, Tristan T. Davis, then drove off in the stolen SUV. They were arrested four days later. 

Sentencing is scheduled for November 7. The carjacking charges carry a penalty of up to 15 years in prison and the brandishing charges carry a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of seven years consecutive to any other sentence.

Jackson, 20, and Tristan Davis, 20, have pleaded guilty to carjacking and brandishing charges.

The St. Louis County Police Department, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI, the Webster Groves Police Department and the Hazelwood Police Department investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Bluestone is prosecuting the case. 

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.