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After the prison-yard murder of Larry Davis in upstate New York, most City papers noted his infamy and folk- or anti-hero status, but for the most part were content to portray him as a vicious thug, murderer, and all-around lowlife. Davis was shanked multiple times by another inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster county New York.

Though he survived an NYPD manhunt and hostage standoff in 1986, Larry Davis died violently yesterday in an upstate prison yard after being shanked multiple times by a fellow inmate. Davis was stabbed multiple times with a foot-long metal shank.