Man gets 50 years for murder

Tommie Forster, a 23-year-old Portsmouth man, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the first-degree murder of Maya Danielle Davis.

The 21-year-old Portsmouth woman died from blunt force trauma to the head. Her body was found in September 2007 down an embankment off Rotunda Avenue in Chesapeake, near the Portsmouth city line.

Circuit Judge John Brown sentenced Forster this month to 85 years in prison, with 35 suspended. Brown had found Forster guilty of the crime in October after a bench trial.

In addition to blunt-force trauma to the head, there were signs Davis had been choked. A jogger, a local physician, discovered her body.

A log was found resting on her head, according to court testimony. Forster had taken her to the spot, a road that parallels Interstate 264, assaulted her and left her to die.

Forster once dated Davis. Days before her death, Forster was convicted in Portsmouth General District Court of stalking her. A peace bond failed to keep him away.