The suspect in a July 2021 Federal Way homicide has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and now faces up to about 29 years in prison.
On May 8, Patrick O’Neil Tables Jr., 25, pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Andre Davis, 19, and in plea negotiations, with the input of the victim’s family, had his other charge of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm dismissed. Tables will be sentenced on June 13 at the Regional Justice Center in Kent.
According to Tables’ plea documents, he has prior adult felony convictions of attempt to elude a police vehicle, first-degree robbery, and custodial assault. He also has four juvenile felonies and five juvenile misdemeanors. In Washington state, a defendant’s sentencing range is based on their offender score, which is calculated using their prior offenses.
Documents state that Tables has an offender score of eight, making his standard sentencing range between 257 months to 357 months. According to documents, the state recommended he receive a sentence of 270 months, about 22 and a half years.
Details of the crime
At about 8:30 p.m. July 30, 2021, police responded to reports of a deceased man in an overturned silver Mercedes-Benz with bullet holes near the 35600 block of 21st Avenue Southwest in Federal Way, according to charging documents.
Moments before, Federal Way Safe City Cameras reportedly captured a Chevy Impala pull up alongside a silver Mercedes-Benz sedan driven by 19-year-old Andre Davis, which was stopped at the intersection. The driver of the Impala — later identified as Tables — is allegedly seen reaching across a female in the passenger seat, and firing an AR-style handgun multiple times at the Mercedes-Benz, according to charging documents.
Cameras show Davis’ car accelerating before crashing into two trees and a traffic light utility box, then rolling. The Impala then sped away on Southwest 356th Street, documents stated.
The King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Davis died from multiple gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide. Davis suffered gunshot wounds to his head, chest, upper right shoulder and left leg.
The killing was “unprovoked,” wrote Senior Deputy Prosecutor Donald J. Raz in the charging documents.
According to an obituary for Davis, he was a “fiercely protective big brother to his younger sister and brother. As well as to his mother, family, and friends. Andre was a young man with such a big kind, caring loving heart, and would always be a supportive listening ear to his friends and family when they needed someone to talk to.”
The following month, detectives located a Chevy Impala matching the description of the involved vehicle at a Federal Way apartment complex in early August 2021, which was registered to Tables Jr.
After searching and seizing the Impala, detectives found two Blackout rifle fired cartridge cases that were consistent with the type of gun used in the homicide, documents state.
When reviewing his Snapchat and social media accounts, detectives found photos of an AR pistol and a magazine similar to that captured in the Safe City camera footage and posted just before and a few days after the killing, documents state. In messages, Tables Jr. allegedly said he was attempting to sell both the Impala and an AR pistol, according to documents.
“Tables Jr. also states that ‘I got the blackout too. Blackout just a wee bit hot lol.’ Black was the type of fired rifle cartridge cases that were seized by detectives from Tables Jr.’s Impala,” documents state.
In Aug. 2021, Tables Jr. was held at the Washington County Jail in Oregon for unrelated crimes during which he made 18 calls to a cellphone that detectives determined to belong to him, documents state. The recorded phone calls captured his phone calls with a female, who is believed to be his girlfriend, and Tables Jr. allegedly told the female he was “concerned that he was being investigated for the Federal Way homicide,” documents state.
Investigation into the second cellphone found it was in close proximity to the homicide scene at the time of the July shooting, documents state.
According to documents, after the shooting, Tables Jr.’s online search history allegedly shows he searched for 300 Blackout pistol extended and drum magazines both the day before and the day of the shooting. Documents state he also searched for news reports of the shooting over 20 times over the following week, with the first search being less than 20 minutes after the fatal shooting of Davis.
Reporting from a previous Mirror article was used in this story.
Patrick Tables’ mugshot from the Washington State Department of Corrections and a photo of Andre Davis, courtesy of Mountain View Funeral Home. Courtesy photos
