 In early November, acting on a tip, police sought Davis, but failed to find him, at his sister's apartment within 1231 Fulton Avenue in the Bronx's Morrisania section.Once they returned to the apartment on November 19, the infamous shootout occurred.After it, the police department explained the raid as an effort to question him, but later reexplained it as an attempt to arrest him, albeit without an arrest warrant for him.