FL FL - Sylvester Davis, 33, Tallahassee, 26 Oct 2005

On Tuesday night, Sylvester Davis Jr. called his father to see how he was doing, Sylvester Davis Sr. said.

The elder Davis said the two spoke briefly around 10 p.m.

The next day, the father started making plans to bury his son.

On Thursday, Tallahassee police continued to search for clues in the shooting death of Davis Jr., a 33-year-old city employee who was found dead Wednesday in his southwest Tallahassee home. His death is being treated as a homicide, according to police, making him the ninth homicide victim in the city this year.

Davis Jr., assistant supervisor at the Lawrence-Gregory Community Center on Dade Street, was "not the type of person to not call," center supervisor Aurora Torres-Hansen said.

So when he didn't show up for work on Wednesday and didn't call to say he wasn't coming, she got worried and sent staff to his home on Arnold Street.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/13017719.htm

Listed as a cold case with the Tallahassee PD:

https://www.talgov.com/tpd/tpd-coldcases.aspx

Published 11/1/2019 Video with his mother at link.

'I can't let it rest': Helen Gainous holds hope, 14 years after son Sylvester Davis Jr.'s homicide
Snips:

Last week was the 14th anniversary of the shooting death of that son, Sylvester Davis, Jr.

When Davis, 33, uncharacteristically didn’t show up for work on Oct. 26, 2005, a center employee went to his Arnold Street house in southwest Tallahassee.

She looked inside and saw his feet from the window, according to a Democrat report.

Despite pleas from the family, Tallahassee police investigators, Crime Stoppers, a reward pot that reached $10,000 and billboard displays, a suspect has never been identified.

In 2006, TPD classified it a cold case, one of almost two dozen with that classification in the capital city.

His obit:

Sylvester Davis - Obituary