HOUSTON — The man who shot and killed a Brazoria County deputy in southwest Houston Wednesday was gunned down hours later in a shootout with police. Sean Christopher Davis, aka Robert Lee Davis, died in the dumpster where he’d been hiding.
The career violent criminal became the target of a manhunt after he killed BCSO Deputy Jesus Jesse Vargas at a strip center on Stella Link Road just inside the South Loop. Vargas was shot in the head while trying to serve a warrant to Davis outside a Dollar Tree around 11:30 a.m.
That manhunt ended Wednesday evening behind the same strip center where it started when a U.S. Marshals K-9 found Davis in the dumpster and jumped inside while alerting officers. Davis shot and wounded K-9 Rocky before he was shot and killed by police.
We’ve learned that Davis had a long and violent criminal history, including two cases in 2024: aggravated sexual assault of a teenage girl in Houston in April and aggravated assault in Brazoria County in October.
Vargas and other members of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force were serving a warrant for the aggravated assault case Wednesday morning, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
Sean Christopher Davis shot another man in October
Davis, 56, had a long rap sheet for a quarter of a century with at least two violent crimes in 2024. A search of the Texas DPS database uncovered the following serious crimes.
- October 2024: Aggravated assault in Brazoria County
- April 2024: Aggravated sexual assault of teenage girl in Harris County
- 2019: Released from parole
- 1994: Convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to 25 years in prison; paroled in 2015
- September 1992: Escape
- 1991: Arrested for evading police
- November 1990: Burglary of a motor vehicle and weapons charge in Houston; convicted and released on parole
In court documents obtained by KHOU 11, we learned the victim in the April sex assault case was a teenage relative.
She told police that Davis spiked her juice and then assaulted her at gunpoint while they were at another relative’s home near Highway 288 and West Orem Drive in southwest Houston. The next morning, she told family members what happened and they took her to a hospital where a rape test was done.
Davis was charged in August after DNA testing came back but he hadn’t been arrested yet.
On Oct. 8, 2024, Davis shot a man outside an Iowa Colony convenience store after the victim confronted him about stealing his truck. The man was critically wounded and airlifted to Memorial Hermann in Houston with a gunshot wound to the back. He gave police the shooter’s name before Life Flight arrived.
Members of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force were serving a warrant on the Iowa Colony shooting when Davis shot Deputy Vargas.
According to the Manvel Police Department, Davis was also wanted on a theft charge in Galveston County and weapons charges in Fulton County, Georgia.
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