A Maricopa woman who once tried to abort her pregnancy by drowning it in liquor and lied to police about her fugitive, homicidal husband has a past as wild as it sounds — one that includes strip clubs, a robbery with rapper Coolio’s son and a headline-making arrest that made it all the way to TMZ. 

Shantrice Wilkerson, 40, was once a stripper in Las Vegas. Before she was arrested in Maricopa last year, she served time for helping Grtis Ivey — son of the late Gangsta’s Paradise rapper Coolio — pull off a robbery on the Las Vegas Strip. 

But ask Wilkerson how she got there, and she’ll rewind the story well past Vegas. 

“All I cared about was school and sports,” Wilkerson, originally from Southern California, said in an email reviewed by InMaricopa. “It helped me cope with the sad truth my parents were dope heads — heroin, to be exact.” 

Wilkerson said she was taken from her parents at age 11 and placed in 43 foster homes due to frequent runaways. She was eventually accepted to San Jose University in the Bay Area. 

“My husband was a street n***a at that time,” she said of Eugene Davis, 42, with whom she lives on Thornberry Lane in Homestead. “I went off to college and had high hopes, thinking once my husband saw how much better life would be if he left the streets alone, he’d leave and come with me.” 

But three months into her studies, she said Davis called her — crying. 

“While at a house party — everybody was drinking, smoking and popping ecstasy pills — people started saying gang-related stuff, and a gun was pulled out,” Wilkerson said. “My husband started tussling and the gun fell. My husband picked it up and made one shot. That one shot punctured a young man in his arm, hitting a main vein, and he bled out to death.” 

InMaricopa independently confirmed Davis was convicted in a Sacramento County homicide case. He remains on parole. 

“That day he was sentenced, I lost a big part of my heart,” Wilkerson said. “I went back to college but didn’t really care about school or sports anymore. I was sad, upset, frustrated and a lot more emotions.” 

Wilkerson said she was later kicked out of college after a fight that landed her in jail for eight months. InMaricopa could not independently verify that claim. 

What happens in Vegas… 

Wilkerson said she moved back to her native Los Angeles after serving time and signed with a modeling agency, appearing in music videos and commercials. 

“One day while on set I overheard two females saying they work in Vegas on the weekends to make ends meet living in expensive-ass L.A.,” she said. They were strippers. 

Wilkerson joined them for one night and made more than $1,000. That single night — and the fact Davis was behind bars — was enough to convince her to move to Las Vegas full time. 

“Shortly after moving, I met this guy,” she said. “I was so upset with my husband because he made the choice to do what he did and I told him my life isn’t going to stop because [if] he had listened to me, he wouldn’t be there.” 

The “guy” turned out to be Coolio’s son. 

“I was mesmerized by the house, fancy cars, something I [had] never seen before,” she said. “I ended up moving into Coolio’s mansion with his son, and life was good.” 

In 2012, Wilkerson was still stripping when a man approached her at work and asked “how much would I charge him to f*ck me.” She told the man she didn’t do sex work. 

“When I told him I’m not into that, he went on to disrespect me, saying I’m a stripper, $5,000 is like a million to me,” she said. “He continued to humiliate me, calling me n***er and any other degrading names he could think of.” 

Wilkerson called Ivey, sobbing. According to her, they plotted revenge. 

“He told me to go back to the man, apologize and arrange to meet after I leave the club,” she said. “He said he was going to make the man pay for his disrespectful behavior towards me at the club. We went there, he robbed him, told him next time to do it to his own kind, and we left.” 

But according to TMZ, the biggest celebrity and entertainment newspaper in America, the story went down differently. 

The outlet reported Wilkerson was “trollin’” at LAX nightclub at the Luxor when she met Joseph Hall and told him she dreamed of having sex on a pile of money. The two allegedly went to Hall’s apartment, he pulled $5,000 from a safe, then went back to Wilkerson’s place — where nothing happened. 

Three days later, she reportedly returned to Hall’s apartment with a gun, forced him into the bathroom and ransacked the place. 

Jail records obtained by InMaricopa confirm Wilkerson and Ivey were booked on robbery charges at the same time. She was later convicted. 

Wilkerson now says prison was the best thing that ever happened to her. She eventually reconnected with Davis, who had been paroled on his homicide conviction, got clean and moved with him to Homestead. 

“I got clean, got my mind back right, found my self-respect and left that lifestyle right in that prison,” she said. 

… ends up in Maricopa 

In November, Wilkerson called Maricopa police to report a break-in at her Thornberry Lane home, according to police reports. She said she’d been gone for three days and suspected her landlord had broken her TV. 

When officers didn’t arrive within two minutes, she called back and told dispatchers it was an emergency and they needed to get there stat. 

When police officers William Wetherell and Nathan Peterson arrived, Wilkerson — visibly pregnant and apparently intoxicated — told them to leave. She said their presence would “mess every single thing up” with her husband and added, “If he sees you guys, he is not going to come anywhere on this block.” 

She told police Davis had strangled her and was an “absconder” (fugitive) from California. She said he would likely murder her or her children if he found out she’d called the cops, according to police reports. 

She also admitted to trying to kill her unborn baby by poisoning it with an excessive amount of alcohol, saying Davis and his mother were “stressing me out and hurting the baby,” so she said “f*ck it.” 

Based on Wilkerson’s claims that Davis was armed with a gun, other officers conducted a high-risk traffic stop near CVS at John Wayne Parkway and Smith-Enke Road. Davis and his mother were detained, but no weapon was found. Davis said Wilkerson got upset after his mother suggested they go to Phoenix for Thanksgiving. When Wilkerson changed her mind, he and his mother left to get his glasses fixed. 

Wilkerson later texted Davis’s mother saying she regretted getting back with him and threatened to shoot her children, then herself in a family annihilation-style murder-suicide. Maricopa police placed her in protective custody, then booked her into jail. 

A month later, she pleaded guilty to false reporting in court. A criminal nuisance charge was dropped by prosecutors in a plea bargain. 

Police ran Davis’s information and found no active parole violation at the time. He was released. 

…and sometimes back to Cali 

That wasn’t the last time the police dealt with the couple, however. 

On April 11, Maricopa police stopped a white van near Smith-Enke Road and Desert Greens Drive for an undisclosed reason. Davis was in the passenger seat. 

This time, a records check revealed a fugitive-from-justice warrant out of Sacramento County — connected to the same homicide conviction Wilkerson had described. 

He was extradited to California in May. Wilkerson, who did not answer questions for this story, is living the single life in Maricopa.