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The Port Orange man accused of killing his fiance Friday night was ordered held without bond.Jamal Davis, 35, was arrested this weekend after the body of Justine Clawson, 24, was found in the couple's apartment. Davis told police he shot her during an argument about the two children.Davis faced a judge Sunday morning in the Volusia County Branch Jail. The judge read the charges of first-degree murder and two counts of child neglect, denied bond for Davis, and appointed the public defender to represent him in the criminal case.The day before Clawson was killed, she posted a smiling selfie to Facebook with her fiancé."It's extremely awful because she's a good girl," said Clawson's friend Shannon Cameron, who works at a salon in New Smyrna Beach next to a coffee shop owned by her father. "A beautiful girl and (she came from) a good family."Clawson, a stylist, gushed online about her two kids, ages 1 and 2. She lived with Davis at the Victoria Gardens apartments in Port Orange, police said. Davis was the father of one of the children. The other child was from a previous relationship, police said.Detectives said Davis told them during an interview that he got into an argument with Clawson on Friday night about their relationship and issues involving child custody. He said the fight became physical and says he shot Clawson "at least two times.""I thought someone was banging the wall," said their neighbor, who heard a loud noise between 9 and 10 p.m. After talking with police he now thinks that could have been a gunshot.He said the couple moved in two months ago and he never heard them argue. Davis took off with the two kids, police said, and abandoned them at the Renaissance Center, a shopping plaza about 20 minutes away on South Nova Road in Ormond Beach. He then drove his car into a tree around 11:30 p.m. in an attempt to take his own life, authorities said.Police contacted Clawson's father, who went to check on his daughter. He found her body around 1:30 a.m., police said. Her body was taken to a medical examiner's office for autopsy.Clawson's two kids are now in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, police said.Davis, who called Clawson his queen, and is seen kissing her cheek in an online photo posted four days ago."Totally sweet, honest, worked hard," Cameron said, with tears in her eyes, after learning what happened. "She was a true, honest person and my heart goes out to the family because they're amazing."Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 386-506-5895 or email cbingham@port-orange.org.