In early November, acting on a tip, police sought Davis but failed to find him at his sister's apartment within 1231 Fulton Avenue in the Bronx's Morrisania section. They returned to the apartment on November 19, when the infamous shootout occurred. After it, the police department explained the raid as an effort to question him, but later reexplained it as an attempt to arrest him, albeit without an arrest warrant for him. Months later, once the police alleged a Jerome Avenue car chase with gunshots fired at police 20 days before the infamous raid, "officials from the Bronx District Attorney's office and the Police Department deflected questions about why no warrant had been issued for Mr. Davis's arrest after the Jerome Avenue incident. Each agency referred questions to the other." At some point, a senior police official argued that "once you move to introduce an accusatory instrument, you lose the benefit of being able to talk to that person."