On June 25, 2025, after approximately three hours of deliberation, a Dauphin County jury convicted Davon Hairston of second-degree murder. At 8:53 p.m. on March 21, 2023, Hairston, who goes by the street name “Boogz”, entered an apartment building at 3 N. 16^th Street, to collect a drug debt he believed was owed to Antwoine Burnett, who goes by the street name “Twaney” and was incarcerated in Dauphin County Prison. Hairston proceeded to apartment 2A, where the victim, 22-year-old Damien Servidio, was spending time with his family and friends, prior to leaving at midnight for a spring break trip to Miami. A witness, Servidio’s mother, Tarvia Byrd, heard Servidio say, “I’m not trying to beat Twaney”, as he ran to a back bedroom where his sisters and friends were having a dance battle, holding his side and collapsing on the bed. Byrd heard Hairston say, “Yeah, Twaney’s money,” and within seconds went to the living room to see who was inside her apartment. Byrd saw Hairston with his hand in his pocket, and he ordered her not to say a thing to anyone.

As police conducted their investigation, they located several videos of Hairston both arriving to and running out of the apartment building as well as the route of the vehicle he left in. Detectives identified the registered owner of the vehicle as Antoinette Martin, Burnett’s girlfriend. At 8:57 p.m., Martin texted Burnett in Dauphin County Prison saying, “Boogz said call now.” At 9:00 p.m., six minutes after the stabbing, Burnette called Martin’s telephone from the prison, on a recorded line. Hairston admitted to being at the apartment to confront Servidio, going into the apartment without consent, and stabbing Servidio one time. He further stated he did not think the stab was deep enough to need an ambulance or police which they could hear arriving to 3 N. 16^th Street from Martin’s home, which was approximately half a mile from the scene. He also admitted that Servidio’s mother was the only one who saw him and said they needed to make sure no one pressed charges. Burnett laughed about the incident and Martin admitted that she had just returned to her house with Hairston.

At 9:54 p.m., Servidio was pronounced dead from a single 6¾-inch-deep stab wound to his abdomen that nearly reached his spine and caused extensive internal bleeding that Forensic Pathologist Dr. Wayne Ross testified at trial was not survivable.

Judge Edward M. Marsico, Jr. presided at trial and will sentence Hairston on September 24, 2025. Second-degree murder currently carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. At the time he committed the murder, Hairston was on parole for first-degree robbery, aggravated assault, terroristic threats and related offenses. He received a sentence of seven to fourteen years. He received parole on November 5, 2018, after serving seven years and five days of that sentence. Detective Jon Fustine of the Harrisburg Bureau of Police was the lead investigator. Chief Deputy District Attorney John R. Canavan and Senior Deputy District Attorney Breese Lantzy prosecuted the case.