Shirley anne ross

SHIRLEY ANNE ROSS Shirley was birthed in Tyler, Tx and raised with seven siblings. A short time after she was born her mother, Lurlean Davis, packed up the family and moved to Ft Worth, Tx. Out of seven, Shirley was the fifth child to be born into the family. Although Shirley’s last name is Ross, she was raised as a Davis.

At the age of 20 Shirley was falsely accused of assault and attempted murder. Her mother had asthma and called Shirley from work one day and asked if she could bring her asthma pump “I got her medicine and took it to her like she asked. On my way, walking, back over the bridge a few policemen swarmed around me in their cars.” Shirley says that the policemen asked her for her I.D. but she didn’t have any on her at that time; the policemen automatically assumed that she was the woman guilty of the assault and attempted murder because she fit the description and her lack of proof of her identity. “I asked them if they could take me back to my mother’s job so she could explain who I was and where I was coming from, but they told me that they couldn’t do that.” The policemen took Shirley to jail and held her there for 72 hours. She asked the policemen if they could take her to the hospital that the victim was getting treated at so he could tell them that it wasn’t her, but yet again they told her that they wouldn’t do it.

The policemen came up with the idea to take a photo of Shirley and show it to the victim to see if he says that Shirley is the woman that they are looking for. Sure enough, the man said that Shirley looked like the woman but she wasn’t her. They released Shirley shortly after the man confirmed that Shirley wasn’t the woman.

Three years went by and another crime was committed by the same look-a-like. It was said that she was stealing from a Radio Shake in Dallas, Tx. The store employee said that he saw the woman running out of the store and he could identify her if he was her again “somehow they pulled my picture out of the books from when they took it three years ago when I went to jail the first time on the account of the same woman. A few people looked at the picture of me and said that I was the woman, yet again.” They took Shirley to jail again. A year later they let her out and she had to go to court. “The jury found me guilty.” Shirley tells us with tears in her eyes. Before taking her back to jail they took her to the store that was robbed to ask the employee if she was the woman that he saw running out of the store “He told the policemen that it wasn’t me. By the time they took me back to court they were sticking with me being the person who had done the crime.” They sentenced Shirley with three years in the Texas state penitentiary. She did three years. Shirley tells Yaner that she has let all of what happened in the past go and she has moved on with her sons and her life.