Camden man arrested in the stabbing death of a woman found dead by firefighters
Kacheim Davis, 31, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Christine Pierce, 41, of Camden.
A Camden man has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a woman whose body was found by firefighters dispatched to her home over the weekend after a smoke alarm sounded.
Kacheim Davis, 31, killed 41-year-old Christine Pierce after an argument in her Camden home, authorities said Wednesday.
Firefighters went to Pierce’s apartment on the 800 block of Haddon Avenue about 9 p.m. Saturday for a report of smoke detectors going off. Once inside, they found and extinguished a small stove fire before finding Pierce unresponsive in another room with a stab wound to her back. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Authorities did not say how the two knew each other or what led detectives to arrest Davis, who remains in custody at the Camden County Correctional Facility awaiting a detention hearing.
Patricia Pierce, 62, the victim’s mother, said Wednesday that Davis was her daughter’s on-and-off boyfriend for about a year.
“She didn’t deserve the way she died,” said the mother, who lives in Burlington County.
Pierce said her daughter was working part time at an Amazon warehouse but wanted to go back to school to finish a nursing degree. “Christine was a bright girl, very smart,” her mother said. “She could do anything. She could help anybody.”