MASON CITY – A drunken, violent man who ran down a couple who were on a motorcycle was sent to prison Monday for a quarter of a century.
Victor Rivera, age 47 who had moved to Mason City from Minneapolis, pled guilty Monday to vehicular homicide – operating under the influence and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. He was sentenced by judge Rustin Davenport to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay $169,906.16 in restitution to the family of his victim, 43-year-old Jefferson Davis, who died as a result of Rivera’s actions.
On November 22, 2014 at about 4:53 PM, Mason City Police were dispatched to a collision at Highway 122 and South Pierce Avenue. A truck driven by Rivera struck a Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by Jefferson Davis with passenger 40-year-old Nicole Lynn Shariff and left the scene. Both victims were transported to North Iowa Mercy Health Center by the Mason City Fire Department. Davis was pronounced dead at the hospital and Shariff suffered serious injuries.
A Cerro Gordo County Deputy located Rivera’s vehicle a few minutes later and attempted to stop him. Rivera failed to stop until it reached the 1500 block of North Madison. Stop sticks were employed to stop his vehicle. He was arrested there on five valid arrest warrants from Cerro Gordo County. One warrant was for Aggravated Domestic Assault from a Mason City case, four others for failure to appear in court on charges of Going Armed with Intent, Burglary 1st Degree, Disorderly Conduct and Interference with Official Acts all from a Clear lake case.
Rivera had been wanted since April of 2014 in connection to an incident in Clear Lake where he was charged with felonies. On Saturday, February 1, 2014, Clear Lake police said Rivera brandished a large knife at an apartment complex and threatened to harm others. He later entered an apartment with the knife searching for a man he had been fighting with. Police arrived and physically restrained Rivera and took him to jail. He had been released pending court dates but failed to appear. In December of 2014, he pleaded guilty to felony going armed with intent and was given a 5 year prison sentence.
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If this piece of crap had been in jail where he belonged Jeff Davis would still be alive. Does anyone really believe that the restitution will ever be paid?
This is too evil and depraved to discuss. Where was the five year prison sentence? The motorcyclist would have been alive had Rivera been in prison. Again, the legal system is broken, and has its legal philosophies messed up. Violent people need to be in jail, non violent people can do community service and pay fines. Viva la legal revolution!
And yes, loud aggravating motorists and motorcyclists who rev their engines in a loud disturbing way are part of the violence and need to be locked up. Just so no one gets the wrong idea that I’m pro biker. I am pro anything provided the action doesn’t harass my rights to peace and quiet. Law enforcement is to blame for pitting citizen against citizen because they fail to enforce the code and do their job protecting the peace. They made a lifelong enemy for this non action.
Pretty ballsy there Peter. Jeff had a ton of friends and none of them will take kindly to this comment. This just shows what a pathetic person you are.
Has nothing to do with this motorcyclist nor his friends. My statement is directed at the lawmakers, councils and area authorities. Just because cops have forsaken the Iowa code doesn’t mean loud pipes are legal nor welcomed. You obviously cannot comprehend beyond your “clique/gang” mentality, which is at the root of why this nation no longer follows laws in the first place.
I can comprehend plenty. A man was killed, and you use this article to bitch about your obsession with loud pipes. You have no empathy for anyone. You are a selfish, pathetic POS. You are no better than the man that killed him.
The guy who struck the motorcyclist probably had a job.
Keep running your ignorant flaps Mr. Crapmaster, and there won’t be a chance in hell you’ll ever be man enough to show your mug in N IA again. Someone will finally have enough of your insensitive, idiotic remarks and they will bitch slap you until you regret your comments.
If my police force were in effect, they’d wrap those loud pipes around your scrotum, then shove it up ur “crapmaster”. You’re lucky good old boys are running your show. I would show no mercy.
There’s a few people from here in North Iowa heading to Vegas in the next couple weeks. And they love their loud pipes! If you happen to run into them, I’m sure they would love to hear your feelings on their pipes. And I agree with Buzz.
I’d bring back old world punishments, locking offenders up in stockades with loud pipes aimed at their ears periodically roaring at staggered times through the day and night. By the time the sleep deprived criminal finally collapses unconscious, they’ll never want to hear another loud pipe again. I’ll of it A Clockwork Orange style. Inject them with Haldol, pin their eyes open and blast them with loud pipes and violent imagery all day and night long. You’ll beg for quiet.
And you call yourself a minister. You are nothing but a hipocrital, pathetic POS.
“If my police force were in effect, they’d wrap those loud pipes around your scrotum, then shove it up ur “crapmaster”. You’re lucky good old boys are running your show. I would show no mercy.”
Can’t do it yourself? You should stick to rearranging peoples paper plates and plastic spoons and taking orders from your 5th grade boss, tough guy.
@Buzz-just more empty threats from the biggest coward I have ever seen. He is just shooting off his keyboard mouth “AGAIN”.
Kapow! I got ya good again Buzz. Ur staggering against the ropes. And obviously Buzzcockledoodledoo, it’s going to take an Army of police to bring all the loud pipe offenders into compliance. They’ve been running amuk for decades no thanks to the police and Bush’s “gold rush” years. Bush tanked the economy, started wars, pardoned Wall Street criminals, and led Harley guys to believe they rule the country. One man couldn’t fix that quagmire.
Once again, Peter is showing his true colors. This was an article about a nice guy getting killed by a drunk driver and that drivers punishment. The punishment helps the family and friends with some closure to this horrible incident. And YOU have to make it about YOU. You are a horrible person, an insensitive person, and a complete asshole. You don’t live here anymore (thank God) so why can’t you just go away.
Why can’t you just move on. You’ve said many times how you hate Iowa. But you are constantly in this site which mostly covers local and state news. Why can’t you just keep your bug f***ING mouth shut for ONCE! You only think of yourself. You are an arrogant narcissistic jerk who thinks he knows everything. Even though you have no education. Hell you even quit high school just like you’ve quit everything. The only thing you haven’t quit is your mouth.
And you haven’t quit posting on here even though everyone HATES you. You are a selfish piece of shit. You are a total waste of space. You are nothing but a loser who has no life except to cling to this site. You left here and trust me you won’t be welcome back. So why don’t you just do everyone a huge favor and drop dead.
I went to school with Jeff. We shared a few classes together and always got along well…joking quite a bit. My points about the broken legal system which allowed a violent felon to walk free (resulting in Jeff’s death) and the non enforcement of loud tailpipes by law enforcement (more evidence of broken legal system) has nothing to do with Jeff personally as a person and victim. The only people trying to draw that correlation is you and the other anonymi.
@LVS….You are correct. I think he’s a total waste of skin too. His poor mother is so ashamed of him as is the rest of his family. What a public embarrassment he is to them.
And what a National embarrassment you and your third uncle LVS are. People reading in from the rest of the world or other states must think Iowans to be savages. The anti intellectualism you ogres have displayed has set back north Iowa for some time, as the latest crop of burgeoning thinkers have left the state. They correctly discerned there’s no hope for that region. Of course that’s how you trolls want it. You want to force people to pay to cross the bridge.
Hey Philly, you should go whine and cry to Matt to have these comments removed before someone kicks your ass.