19 Year-Old Virginia Man Charged in Stabbing Death of Gay Hairstylist and Boyfriend
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A suspect has been arrested and charged with the murder and auto theft of gay hairstylist Carroll Davis, 62, inside Davis’s home in Leesburg, Va. on Sept. 30.
A 19-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a 62-year-old man he was dating in his Loudoun County home on Friday.
Lisa Ellis told News4 by phone that the news that her uncle, Carroll Davis, was stabbed to death in his house on Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg, Virginia, has been devastating.
“I told everybody like, tomorrow’s not promised. You got to love your family and friends and be there, but like I said, everybody was there. And everybody talked to him and loved him and everything,” Ellis said.
The suspect, Mario R. Hernandez-Navarrate, was arrested after being involved in a crash while driving Davis’ car.
Ellis said her uncle had been dating the suspect for a few months. Davis’ family members said they know very little about Hernandez-Navarrate.
“It wasn’t like they were in a long-term relationship. We met him I think only one time,” she said.
Now, Davis is being remembered as someone whose talents as a master hair stylist brought laughter and joy to many people. Many of his clients had been coming to him for decades, and he was regarded as family by those who sat in his chair.
He was also an enthusiastic amateur actor who doted on his sister, nieces and nephew.
Court records show Hernandez-Navarrate was previously arrested in July for a crime listed as robbery with a weapon and released on personal recognizance until trial. He was ordered held without bond until his next court appearance.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office told Fox 5 News it received a call from the hair salon where Davis worked on Sept. 30 asking them to check on Davis because he did not show up for work. The Sheriff’s Office said deputies went to Davis’s home on Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg and found Davis’s body and a bloody knife on a counter.
Fox 5 News reports that court documents state that at the time of his arrest, Hernandez-Navarrate had “dried up blood on his feet and under his fingernails” and admitted to being at Davis’s home on the day Davis’s body was found.
Online court records obtained by the Blade show that at the time he was charged with Davis’s murder Hernandez-Navarrate had been awaiting trial for a July 27, 2022, arrest on charges of robbery with a weapon and possession of illegal drugs.
“Now, Davis is being remembered as someone whose talents as a master hairstylist brought laughter and joy to many people,” News 4 DC’s Jackie Bensen reported in an Oct. 3 broadcast. “Many of his clients had been coming to him for decades, and he was regarded as family by those who sat in his chair,” Bensen reported.
Court records show Hernandez-Navarrate, who was being held without bond, was scheduled to appear for an arraignment at Loudoun County General District Court on Oct. 11.
