Meshon Williams is a teen who was sentence to life in Georgia for the murder of a six year old boy. According to court documents Meshon Williams would fire over thirty gunshots at a home in Decatur Georgia striking and killing a six year old boy inside. This teen killer would be sentenced to life in prison without parole
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The man who killed a six-year-old boy after firing off dozens of rounds in a Decatur neighborhood will spend his life behind bars.
Meshon Williams, 18, pleaded guilty to a number of charges, including felony murder and aggravated assault in court on Friday.
All this was related to a May 2018 incident.
Williams fired at least 31 rounds into a house on Sweetgum Lane, shooting and killing 6-year-old Z’Mari Mitchell, who was inside the home.
A detective revealed evidence Tuesday in the case of Meshon Williams, the 17-year-old accused in the death of a 6-year-old boy allegedly stemming from a social media feud.
Sgt. Lynn Shuler of DeKalb County police said the teen drove five girls to the victim’s home on May 5 so they could fight the child’s sister over something she posted on Instagram. The detective didn’t say what the post said.
Seeing that the fight wasn’t fair, the victim’s mother and father came out of the home near Glenwood Road to break it up. The five girls and Williams told police they got back in the SUV to leave when they saw the father with a gun, according to the testimony.
Several houses down the road, the SUV stopped and witnesses saw Williams get out with a Glock handgun, which had an extended magazine, and fire 31 shots toward the home. Two bullets hit the house, including the one that struck Z’Mari Mitchell in the head, leading to his death, Shuler said.
Speaking with police, Williams later said he fired because he heard shots coming from the house. But even the girls he’d driven to the home said gunshots came from the Mitchell residence only after Williams began to unload his clip.
The only one of the girls who supported Williams’ statement is dating him, Shuler said.
Another officer testified about a separate case in which Williams is accused of recklessly driving a stolen car through an apartment complex parking lot a few days before the shooting. He allegedly slammed the car into a police officer’s cruiser and nearly hit the cop before speeding away and eventually fleeing on foot.
After the testimony, the court found probable cause for the cases against Williams, who is held without bond on charges including murder, to proceed.
Williams’ mother, who didn’t give her name, said she didn’t want to comment after the hearing, other than to say she was saddened by the 6-year-old’s death.
Warren Williams was fourteen years old when he fatally shot his father. According to court documents Warren was watching television with his father when he left the room, came back with a gun and fatally shot his father. At first Williams was trying for a crazy defense but it would hold no water. In the end this teen killer would plead guilty to second degree murder and would be sentenced to twenty and a half years in prison. The trial judge would recommend that Warren spend the first part of his sentence in a juvenile facility until he turns twenty one.
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DC Number:
P46296
Name:
WILLIAMS, WARREN A
Race:
WHITE
Sex:
MALE
Birth Date:
11/19/1995
Initial Receipt Date:
08/09/2011
Current Facility:
SOUTH BAY C.F.
Current Custody:
MINIMUM
Current Release Date:
02/07/2028
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An Escambia County teen is headed to prison for murdering his father.
Warren Williams, 15, pleaded guilty this morning to second degree murder for the death of 55-year old William Williams, a retired Marine. The young Williams, who was just accepted into the International Baccalaureate program at Pensacola High School, was watching the reality series “Survivor” while his mother attended a PTA meeting. During the program, he got up, left the room, and returned with the gun to shoot his father.
Warren was only 14-years old when he shot and killed his father with a 9mm handgun inside their home off Scenic Highway in March 2010. He was sentenced to just over 20.5 years in state prison and 15 years probation by Circuit Judge Joel Boles.
During the sentencing phase, Boles recommended that Warren be placed in the juvenile system until he turns 21. That decision will be made by the Florida Department of Corrections.
Warren Williams’ only brother, 12-year old Sawyer, committed suicide in 2003. The defense claimed Williams suffered depression from the traumatic event.
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A baby-faced Pensacola 14-year-old was charged with murder after his father was shot multiple times with a handgun Thursday night, Pensacola police said.
Warren Williams, 14, of 4835 Andrade St., Pensacola, was charged with an open count of murder in the death of 55-year-old William Williams of the same address. Pensacola police said a motive for the homicide remains under investigation
The incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Detective Danny Harnett said Warren Williams called 911 and said there had been a shooting at the house. When officers arrived, they found William Williams had died at the scene.
Warren Williams was taken into custody at the scene.
William Williams worked airport security at the Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport.
Steve Earnest, TSA federal security director, Pensacola region, told the Pensacola News Journal that Williams was assistant federal security director and oversaw the entire TSA screening operation.
Warren Williams, the baby-faced 15-year-old who shocked the Gulf Coast when he was arrested in early 2010, this morning pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his father, William “Bill” Williams, the Pensacola News Journal reports.
The newspaper reported that Williams, who was 14 at the time of his arrest, was sentenced to 20.5 years in state prison, with 15 years probation afterward, and that the Florida Department of Corrections will decide whether he is turned over to the juvenile system.
Bill Williams, of 4835 Andrade St., Pensacola, was shot multiple times with a handgun on March 11, 2010, Thursday night, Pensacola police said. Williams worked airport security at the Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport.
Ethan Windom was sixteen years old when he brutally murdered his mother in Idaho. According to court documents Ethan Windom would strike his mother over the head with a self made club that held weights on one end. When this teen killer mother was on the floor she would be stabbed repeatedly. Ethan Windom would be sentenced to life in prison however due to his age at the time of the morning he would go through a resentencing hearing.
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IDAHO STATE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION UNIT 16 P.O. Box 14 Boise, Idaho 83707
Status:Age:
Inmate 31
Parole Eligibility Date:
01/25/2033
Parole Hearing Date:
07/2032
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A man who received a life sentence for killing his mother when he was a teenager will be resentenced following two U.S. Supreme Court rulings concerning the sentencing of juveniles.
Ethan Windom, 28, will get to challenge the life sentence he received after stabbing and beating his 42-year-old mother, Judy Windom, to death in 2007 when he was 16 years old.
He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Ada County judge who sentenced him said at the time he was too dangerous to ever be allowed outside the walls of a prison, according to the Idaho Statesman.
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that such sentences for juveniles violate the Eighth Amendment.
Lawyers on both sides are scheduled to meet April 13 with District Judge Cheri Copsey, who originally sentenced Windom.
Windom struck his mother in the head with a club that he made by attaching weights to one end of a dumbbell. He then stabbed his mother’s dead body in the throat, chest and abdomen – and finally in her exposed brain.
Boise teen who murdered his mother will be re-sentenced
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A Boise man who was sentenced to life in prison for brutally killing his mother when he was 16 years old has been resentenced for his crime.
Ethan Windom argued that his youth and immaturity were not considered in light of rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court after he was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of 42-year-old Judy Windom.
Prosecutors say Windom clubbed his mother to death and then repeatedly stabbed her at her Boise home on Jan. 24, 2007. He was charged as adult with first-degree murder, but later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He was ordered to serve life in prison with no possibility of parole
The Idaho Supreme Court reversed that decision and ordered Windom to be resentenced, and the state appealed the order to the U.S. Supreme Court. The application was denied on Feb. 20, 2018.
A series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings called into question whether fixed life sentences are unconstitutionally cruel and unusual when imposed on juveniles, who are under the age of 18 when they commit the offense.
The case was sent back to Idaho’s Fourth District Court. On Wednesday, Judge Michael Reardon sentenced Windom to 26 years to life in prison. Windom has already spent 12 years behind bars.
Max Winkler was seventeen years old when he wanted to know what it would feel like to kill someone. The teen killer from Indiana would pick a random victim and would shoot the seventy three year old man three times before slitting his throat. Max Winkler would try to get off on the mentally ill defence however the judge would not go for it. Maxwell Winkler would be sentenced to eighty years in prison with no chance of parole for sixty years
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DOC Number
264481
First Name
MAXWELL
Middle Name
H
Last Name
WINKLER
Suffix
Date of Birth
03/13/1997
Gender
Male
Race
White
Facility/Location
Miami Correctional Level 3 Facility
Earliest Possible Release Date * *Offenders scheduled for release on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday are released on Monday. Offenders scheduled for release on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday are released on Thursday. Offenders whose release date falls on a Holiday are released on the first working day prior to the Holiday.
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A Fishers teen convicted of murder in a “thrill kill” has been sentenced to 80 years in prison.
Max Winkler pleaded guilty last month to guilty but mentally ill to murder and firearm enhancement. According to the terms of his plea agreement Winkler could be eligible for parole after serving 60 years.
Winkler was a 17-year-old high school student when prosecutors said he killed 73-year-old Henry Kim, shooting him three times and cutting his throat. It happened in November 2014 while Kim was walking in a park near his home. Court records showed Winkler had a handwritten note with the supplies and steps needed to carry out a murder. In one note, he wrote himself a reminder to “enjoy the kill.”
A jury trial had been scheduled to start on Jan. 19, but Winkler and his attorney agreed to a plea deal before the trial began.
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Feb. 5 update: Maxwell Winkler, 18, was sentenced Friday to 80 years in prison for the killing of an elderly man. The sentence was part of a plea agreement Winkler reached with Hamilton County prosecutors in January.
Earlier: An 18-year-old Fishers resident accused of killing an elderly man is pleading guilty to murder and firearm charges — a decision that could send him to prison for much of his adult life.
A plea agreement that Maxwell Winkler reached with Hamilton County prosecutors calls for a sentence of 65 years in prison for the murder charge and another 20 years for the firearm enhancement. The plea deal requires Winkler to spend 80 years in prison and to be on probation for five years.
The Hamilton County prosecutor’s office is dropping its request for life imprisonment without parole as part of the plea deal.
Winkler is facing a murder charge in the death of 73-year-old Henry Kim. Police found Kim’s body, along with several .22-caliber shell casings, on Nov. 1, 2014 at Windermere Park in Fishers. He was shot three times and his throat was slashed.
The Fishers teen was arrested three days later, after police found a .22-caliber handgun, ammunition and handwritten notes outlining details of a seven-step plan to kill. Court records say the notes contained a list of supplies, including gloves and “kill tools.” The items were found in Winkler’s mother’s home.
Winkler, dressed in an orange jail uniform during a hearing Thursday in Hamilton Superior Court, was previously diagnosed and treated for a mental illness. But experts who examined Winkler found he is still able to understand the consequences of his actions.
Winkler’s jury trial was previously scheduled to start on Jan. 19.
A judge must accept the plea deal before it becomes final. That won’t happen until Winkler’s sentencing hearing on Feb. 5.
Indiana law requires Winkler to serve 75 percent of his sentence.
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Tylar Witt was just fourteen years old when she planned the murder of her mother. According to court documents Tylar Witt was dating a much older teen and when her mother learned that her daughter was sexually active she was going to press statutory rape charges against the boyfriend. So the teenage girl planned the murder of her mother. In the end Witt mother would be brutally stabbed to death in her bedroom. This teen killer would end up testifying against her boyfriend and in exchange she received a lesser sentence of fifteen years to life
Tylar Witt was 14 when she helped her boyfriend murder her mom. And on Friday she got a reduced sentence in exchange for testifying against her love-struck accomplice.
Witt, now 16, got her conviction reduced from first-degree to second-degree murder, while Steven Colver, now 21, was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of 47-year-old Joanne Witt in 2009. Witt will now serve 15 years to life in prison.
The teens hatched the murder plot after Joanne Witt made a statutory rape complaint against Colver and gave police her daughter’s diary.
During the sentencing hearing Friday in Placerville, Calif., Michael Witt – who mopped up his sister’s blood from her bed after she was stabbed 20 times – unleashed his anger, calling Colver a “psychotic S.O.B.”
“I hope and desire that Mr. Colver experiences the worst possible experiences our wonderful prison system can bestow upon him,” Witt said, according to the Sacramento Bee.
El Dorado Superior Court Judge Daniel Proud told Tylar she deprived her family of a mother “who dedicated her life to you.”
“Joanne Witt loved her daughter,” the judge said. “She was a protective and caring mother. She tried her best. I’m sorry Ms. Witt because the person who loved you more than anyone in the world, without reservation, is gone.”
Tylar’s grandfather, Norbert Witt, accused Colver in court of both murdering his daughter and of corrupting his granddaughter by exposing her to “heavy narcotics and sex.”
Jan Colver vowed to appeal the decision, saying she still believes her son’s story that Tylar stabbed her mother before Steven even arrived at the house.
Tylar testified at Colver’s trial that they planned to commit the stabbing together, but as Colver entered the bedroom, she stayed outside and “put my hands on my ear, closed my eyes and hummed.”
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Norb and Judy Witt worked hard and planned well to live it up in retirement, traveling whenever they wanted in their luxury RV. In 2009, they spent two months traveling the country, came home to El Dorado Hills, Calif., and days later, got the phone call.
It was their daughter, Joanne’s, boss wondering if they knew where she was.
“And he says, ‘Well–she didn’t show up for work on Friday and she didn’t show up today. And we’re worried that something might be wrong,” said Judi Witt.
Joanne Witt was 47, a single mother raising her teenage daughter, Tylar. She was an engineer for the county. The thing was Joanne always called when she was not coming to work.
“When you heard that she hadn’t been at work the previous Friday or that Monday, did that strike you as odd?” “48 Hours Mystery” correspondent Richard Schlesinger asked Norb Witt.
“Oh, yeah!” he replied. “And, well, like her boss said, she’s never missed work without calling.”
“Well, Norb says, ‘We’re only two miles away. We’ll go check on her,” added Judi.
Joanne’s boss was one step ahead of them.
“He says, ‘I’ve already called the sheriff’s,” Judi said. “And he says, Joanne had confided that she and Tylar had been having some problems. … he says, ‘we were concerned …'”
“I got in the car and got over there so fast,” Norb recalled. “I think I was in a daze by the time I got there. … there was two sheriff’s cars … and two deputies out there walking around the house. … And I said, “Well, I think I can get you in the house.”
Norb unlocked the house, but the sheriff’s deputies ordered him to stay outside while they searched it. Before long, they told him Joanne was upstairs in her bedroom; she was dead.
“They never said killed or murdered … they just said deceased. So we didn’t know what was going on,” Norb said. “But when the CSI van came in and we had probably 20 detectives wandering around the place … we knew that … she had been killed.”
Joanne had been stabbed about 20 times.
“… it was a very, very, very … gruesome scene,” prosecutor Lisette Suder said. “There was a wound that almost decapitated her. Very violent!”
The news got even worse. Their 14-year-old granddaughter, Tylar Witt, was nowhere to be found.
“… we didn’t know if Tylar had been kidnapped or …” said Judi.
“We knew nothing,” added Norb.
The couple says they were in total shock and concerned about Tylar.
But it didn’t take detectives very long to conclude that Tylar was not a victim. Just weeks before Joanne had complained to authorities about her daughter’s relationship with 19-year-old boyfriend Steven Colver. Now, detectives wanted to talk to both of them.
Steven Colver and Tylar Witt met at a coffee shop soon after she started ninth grade and he had started college. Norb Witt says it wasn’t long before Steven started influencing Tylar — and not in a good way.
“… he had a 14-year-old that looked at him as god. I mean, he had total control over her,” Norb explained. “We knew that drugs were involved. We knew that a lot of drugs were involved. … They were into marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine. What does that do to someone’s mind?”
Just weeks after they met, Steven and Tylar convinced her mother to let Steven rent a room in their home. Joanne thought the two were just friends. They told her he was gay. And Joanne told skeptical friends Steven could help Tylar with her homework and help her pay the mortgage.
“No one — every friend she had, everyone in the family — did not want him in there. But,” said Norb, “Joanne was very strong willed …”
So she let Steven move in. But within a month, Joanne had become suspicious. Then she came home one day and was shocked when she went into Steven’s room.
The prosecutor took “48 Hours Mystery” through the house.
“This is the room where it all began …” Suder said of the bedroom where Steven had stayed. “… Joanne walked in and caught them in a compromising position … they had just or were about to engage in a sexual relationship.”
“Tylar was naked?” Schlesinger asked.
“Right. She was actually inside this closet, crouched down, covering herself, but naked!”
Joanne did what any parent would do. She ordered Steven to leave and she called in two of her male co-workers to help throw him out.
“She said she was gonna kick Steven out and she didn’t want to be there alone,” said Vinnie Catapano, a friend of Joanne’s.
Catapano helped move Steven’s things to the sidewalk and then confronted him. “The first thing I said to him is, ‘If it was me – you’d be in jail right now.'”
Joanne believed Steven had committed a crime — statutory rape — by having sex with Tylar, who was a minor. Joanne warned Steven she’d call the sheriff if he didn’t immediately stop seeing Tylar. Catapano took a more direct approach.
“So then I told him, ‘You know, if you make contact with Tylar again — either by phone or in person — I’m gonna hurt you. And I’m gonna hurt you East Coast-style, not West Coast-style,” he told Schlesinger.
Asked what that meant, Catapano told Schlesinger, “Well … I was trying to intimidate him.”
“Did he seem intimidated?” Schlesinger asked.
“Absolutely not. And that, again, annoyed me more,” Catapano replied.
Steven Colver was also apparently not deterred by Catapano or Joanne Witt.
“… he snuck over to the house 20 times,” said Norb.
They continued their affair during the day when Joanne was at work and late at night when she was asleep. When Joanne found out, she made good on her threat and called authorities, who opened an investigation.
“… she wanted him away from her daughter. But they couldn’t stand the thought of not being together. And so that’s when the plotting began,” said Suder.
Within days, Norb Witt unlocked the house and sheriff’s deputies discovered the results of that alleged plot. Norb and his wife, Judy, now faced a terrible choice. Getting justice for the murder of their daughter meant turning their backs on their granddaughter.
With a sigh, Norb told Schlesinger, “If she hadn’t done whatever she did … her mother would still be alive today, probably …”
And prosecutors say Tylar and Steven apparently didn’t intend to stop with Joanne. They had more killing in mind.
Tylar Witt is currently incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility
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Tylar Witt is serving a life sentence however has been eligible for parole since 2021
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