SHOOTING VICTIM IS ACCUSED IN FEDERAL DRUG CASE

The 33-year-old man shot at least five times as he drove into his West
Bloomfield garage Friday isn't your average middle-class home owner.

Police say he isn't even your average suspected drug dealer.

Three weeks before the shooting , Kevin Daniel Davis was named in a federal
indictment that charged:

Davis used drug proceeds in 1997 to buy his brick colonial for $189,000,
then spent $50,000 in drug money to furnish it.

He and an accomplice stashed more than $2 million in drug proceeds in a
Troy storage facility.

Davis was caught on I-94 in Indiana driving a 1999 Range Rover with
$705,000 in drug money hidden in detergent boxes.

He used drug money to buy a luxury BMW, seized by police from the West
Bloomfield house in December, along with $200,000 in jewelry.

The house itself, where Davis' blood stains the white walls, is the subject
of a criminal forfeiture action. Davis remains in an unnamed hospital under
an assumed name -- for his own safety, an investigator said.

West Bloomfield Police Chief Ron Cronin said he was sure the shooting
involved drug dealing.

"We don't like this kind of thing happening in West Bloomfield. We've never
had anything like this before," Cronin said Wednesday.

"But you've got a lot of people who've made money all kinds of ways, and
then they come out to Oakland County and buy houses. We have to watch that."

At the time of the shooting, Davis had been charged with conspiracy to
deliver more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and conspiracy to launder money,
according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit. The drug charge alone
could bring him a life sentence; its mandatory minimum penalty is 10 years
in prison. The money laundering charge is punishable by up to 20 years in
prison.

He is free on an unsecured bond, under threat of forfeiting $20,000 if he
flees authorities, said Margaret Davis, assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit.

Police said they are surprised Kevin Davis survived the attack.

While a gunman blasted away, Davis wheeled a minivan into his garage and
then dashed into his house, police said.

Davis was hit at least five times, bullets striking his left leg, left hip
and left arm.

The assailant, probably with an accomplice, is thought to have fled over
the home's back wall, which borders a shopping center. Police believe the
gunman had a car waiting there.

Four other men are named in the federal indictment with Kevin Davis,
including one with the nickname Slice and another who is Kevin Davis'
brother, authorities said.

The group, alleged to be a major cocaine distribution ring, regularly
imported drugs to Detroit from Chicago, according to the indictment.

Davis had made no offers to testify against his alleged coconspirators, but
in the underworld's grapevine -- fed by rumor and paranoia -- it is
possible his accomplices feared he might, said law enforcement officials,
who declined to be identified because of the ongoing investigation.

Then again, his attackers might have been any of a wide circle of
acquaintances in his drug dealings, investigators said.