COLORADO SPRINGS — Terry Lamaire Gaines took a moment – while leading police on a chase that hit 110 miles per hour – to call his mother early Friday morning.
According to an arrest affidavit filed today in 4th District Court, Gaines, a 22-year old unemployed landscaper from Colorado Springs, told his mom that he had shot someone and was going to jail, “for a very long time.”
His mother, Nylvia Holland, 50, later told investigators that when she asked her son where the gun was, he replied that he still had it, but he was out of bullets. She advised him to toss it out the window to avoid getting shot during the pursuit.
But he didn’t and Colorado State troopers recovered the weapon and took Gaines into custody after disabling the white vehicle he was driving on Interstate 25 north of Pueblo.
Gaines is being held without bond on investigation of first-degree murder in the death of Michael Allen Davis, 27, who was shot to death outside the Mr. Biggs Event Center shortly after midnight Thursday following a concert by rapper E-40.
Colorado Springs police quickly set up a perimeter around the crime scene around the lot north of 5755 Mark Dabling Boulevard. A short time later, Officer Jeffrey Mitchell noticed a white vehicle fleeing from inside the perimeter and “all over the roadway.”
The vehicle briefly stopped and let one person out. Police said that person, Devon Gaines, 17, identified his brother as the driver of the vehicle. He said his brother had repeatedly stated, “I’m going to jail,” according to the affidavit.
Colorado Springs police called off the chase after Mitchell reported the fleeing vehicle was going 110 miles an hour on I-25 past Circle Drive. Police alerted the Colorado State Patrol of the vehicle’s description. A trooper spotted the vehicle at milepost 129 and resumed the chase after trying to pull it over.
After Colorado Springs took Terry Gaines into custody, he told officers that he wanted to leave and go.
“You already have everything you need. You have my car and you have my gun.” Gaines said, according to the affidavit.
Police did find a semi-automatic handgun stuffed under the driver’s seat of the vehicle. The slide was locked to the rear of the gun, which police said is how it would appear after it had been fired empty or if the slide had been pulled back on an empty magazine or locked back manually.
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