Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 21-year-old Caleb Grooms of Buffalo pleaded guilty this afternoon before Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan to one count of Murder in the First Degree (Class “A-I” felony). The defendant pleaded guilty to the highest charge in the indictment against him.

During the early morning hours of November 9, 2021, the defendant intentionally stabbed the victim inside of a home on Lower East Lane in the City of Buffalo. The defendant committed the crime during the course of a burglary. The victim, 18-year-old Malcalm Davis, died from his injuries at the scene.

Grooms faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole when he is sentenced on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 2:30 p.m. He continues to be held without bail.

DA Flynn commends the Detective Raymond Krug and Det. Sgt. Christopher Pliszka of the Buffalo Police Department for their work in this investigation.

The case was prosecuted by Chief Ashley M. Morgan of the Felony Trials Bureau.