Police: Mother had son shoot her

Sandra Davis was shot in the stomach during an early-morning robbery after she tallied up the night-shift receipts at a West Ashley gas station in 2003. Charleston police this week said that it was Davis' son who shot her, intentionally, and they accused the mother and son of orchestrating the $6,000 scheme.

The six-year investigation culminated Thursday with the arrest of Davis, 45, and her 22-year-old son, Joshua Floyd, both of Hanahan. Davis' other son provided police with information that led to the arrests, police said.

Davis and Floyd are each charged with conspiracy and giving false information to police. Davis also faces a breach of trust charge, and Floyd also is charged with assault with intent to kill, Charleston County Detention Center officials said.

Magistrate Linda Lombard decided they could be released on their personal recognizance on all the charges, and the pair left the jail Friday afternoon, officials said.

Davis had been working at the Amoco station on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard. On July 20, 2003, she told authorities that she tallied up the receipts about 5:40 a.m. and was approached by a man who shot her and grabbed a money bag containing roughly $6,000.

Davis was hospitalized and later released. She told police that the robber appeared to wear a hooded sweatshirt, but the holdup was "just a blur," and she couldn't give a detailed description, police said at the time.

Charleston police this week said the incident was a scam.

"The defendant (Floyd) did utilize a .380-caliber handgun to intentionally shoot the codefendant (Davis) in the stomach region in an effort to authenticate the crime," an arrest affidavit said.

Affidavits said the plan was hatched a week earlier, and Davis attempted to recruit the other son as well.

Prior to this week's arrests, Floyd had been convicted of marijuana possession and breach of trust, his criminal history showed.

Davis' rap sheet is nine-pages long and contains numerous convictions for check law violations and one conviction for breach of trust. The document lists several aliases, including Sandra Britton, Sandra Sue Floyd, and several variations of those names.