Barney Davis
Published February 16, 2026 5:17pm
Updated February 16, 2026 5:53pm
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18-year-old Lemarques Darden Jr. was arrested and charged with murdering his best friend Jarvis Davis after an argument over sharing french fries(Picture: Tarrant County)
A teenager who shot his best friend in the head when he refused to give him one of his chips faces jail.
Lemarques Darden Jr, 18, was arrested after he allegedly shot one of his oldest friends, Jarvis Davis, 19, in a row about sharing French fries from a chicken shop in Tyler, Texas.
The pair are thought to have grown up together with family members, initially thinking the death was a ‘joke’ as it was over something so senseless.
Jarvis Davis was shot dead in the argument over chips (Picture: Tarrant County)
Witnesses told police the group of friends, including Jarvis’s girlfriend, had just returned to an apartment in Fort Worth after getting food from a nearby Wingstop when the row turned deadly.
Police claim Darden pulled out a handgun and shot Davis in the head after he refused to share his French fries.
Davis later died at the hospital. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death as a gunshot wound to the head.
Sherika Kennedy, Davis’ mother, said she is now missing a piece of her family after the shooting on January 28.
‘It’s so senseless,’ she told FOX News. ‘Why?’
‘My baby thought he was genuinely his friend. My baby wasn’t expecting him to shoot him. Everybody thought he was joking about the fries.
A customer exits a Wingstop restaurant (Picture: Bloomberg via Getty Images)
‘My son’s girlfriend was laying on my son’s lap at the time, and she heard a glass break, a gun shot and a glass break.’
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His lawyer did not have a comment prepared when reached by FOX 4.
Darden is formally charged with murder under Texas law and is being held in the Tarrant County Jail awaiting a trial date.
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