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0:00And is she in the doorway? Is she
0:02inside?
0:02>> She's in the doorway. And I got up and I
0:05start walking towards her like, "You
0:07going to shoot me? What? You going to
0:08shoot me? You know, you said you don't
0:10want to go to jail cuz they're going to
0:12have to take that weave off and
0:13everybody know you bald."
0:18On the night of June 30th, 2025, a call
0:22came into Harford County dispatch
0:24reporting a shooting at a home in the
0:262,800 block of Binham Overlook Drive in
0:29Abington, Maryland. Deputies with the
0:31Harford County Sheriff's Office arrived
0:33just before 11 p.m. At the scene, they
0:36found 64year-old Lillian Williams
0:38suffering from a gunshot wound.
0:41Emergency help was too late. She was
0:43pronounced dead at the scene. The case
0:45was turned over to detectives with the
0:47sheriff's office criminal investigations
0:49division. Forensic personnel also
0:51responded and investigators began
0:54working through what had happened inside
0:55the home that night. The person closest
0:58to Lillian was her husband, David
1:00Williams. As detectives gathered
1:02information at the scene, he became
1:05someone they needed to speak with
1:06directly. Before the full picture of
1:08that night could be understood,
1:10investigators wanted his account of what
1:12happened, what he saw, and what led up
1:16to the shooting. They brought David
1:18Williams in, sat him down, and began
1:20asking questions about the night his
1:21wife was killed. This is the
1:23interrogation of David Williams.
1:32>> Mr. Williams,
1:34I'm Detective Golden with the Sheriff's
1:35Office. This is technic
1:39this table over just a little bit. Watch
1:41your water there. I don't want to spill
1:43on you.
1:47>> I'm not as skinny as I used to be. So,
1:49need a little extra room.
1:52>> Just so you know, I don't know if
1:54anybody told you. Everything in this
1:55room is visually recorded. Okay.
2:06So,
2:09we all know why we're here, right?
2:13>> Huh?
2:14>> Um, we'll get into all that in just a
2:17little bit. All right. Um, because you
2:20were brought here in a police car in
2:22handcuffs, which is our policy.
2:24>> Um, and because we don't know exactly
2:26what's going on here,
2:28>> I'm just going to advise you of your
2:29rights.
2:30>> Okay. And then we can talk after that.
2:32All right.
2:48>> All right. Mr. Williams, can you read?
2:50>> Yeah.
2:50>> I only asked that to insult your
2:52intelligence. I'll explain why I asked
2:54that in just a moment. And how far did
2:56you go with your education?
2:58>> 1200.
2:59>> Okay. So no college
3:02but
3:02>> okay that's more than I had. So you got
3:05me B.
3:12Okay.
3:14The reason I ask if you can read I'm
3:16going to read this to you.
3:17>> Okay.
3:17>> Okay.
3:18>> Feel free to follow along if you can.
3:20Okay. Again, my name is Detective Golden
3:23of the Harford County Sheriff's Office.
3:25I wish to advise you that you have the
3:27right to remain silent. Anything you say
3:30can and will be used against you in a
3:32court of law. You have the right to an
3:34attorney and have the attorney with you
3:36during questioning. If you cannot afford
3:38an attorney, one will be appointed to
3:40represent you before any questioning. If
3:43at any time during questioning you want
3:46to stop and remain silent, you have the
3:48right to do so. Question number one
3:51says, do you understand what I have just
3:53told you?
3:54>> Yes. If you can mark yes
3:58the first block there and then put your
4:00initials right here sir.
4:04The second question are you willing to
4:06talk to us after being advised of your
4:08rights?
4:10Yes or no?
4:13>> So if I put no then what?
4:15>> Then we're done. We don't talk
4:19>> and then we
4:22>> until we get done our investigation.
4:23Yes, sir.
4:24>> Okay.
4:27>> And then you can just initial and you
4:29checked yes. Is that correct?
4:31>> Mhm.
4:32>> Okay. Question three. Have you had any
4:34threats, promises, force, or has duress
4:38been used to have you talk to us?
4:41>> Okay. You can mark no again. Initial.
4:44And then if you can just sign this top
4:46line, sir.
4:49>> Yes, sir.
5:13All right.
5:25So,
5:27we're here because you got home at some
5:30point, I guess yesterday now, since it's
5:32after midnight. And you found your wife
5:36inside your home. Is that correct?
5:40>> Okay. So, if you can just take me back
5:44to
5:45>> Let me let me tell you let me explain
5:47something to you first.
5:49I'm just gonna be honest cuz I'm a man
5:52of God,
5:54you know.
5:57And this spirit will convict me if I
6:00don't sit up here and tell you the
6:02truth.
6:06I'm over the road truck driver.
6:10Three times
6:12since we were married, I attempted to
6:15leave my wife
6:18cuz she was having an affair.
6:22She claims that she was me.
6:25But
6:27I talk to my wife all the time. When I
6:30first started, when we first got
6:32married, I'm on the road. I would call
6:35my wife,
6:38talk to her. She tell me where she at. I
6:40said, "Faceetime, let me see you." She
6:42FaceTime me where she was at.
6:47So, um,
6:50I knew she was there by herself, so I
6:52made her get her permit for a gun. I
6:56bought her a gun and I would leave it
6:58with her when I on the road, cuz I be
7:01gone two months sometimes. Sometimes
7:03I'll be gone a month and a half. It
7:05depends on what she wanted where she
7:07wanted to travel. She like to travel.
7:10So
7:12everything was fine.
7:15I forgave her the first time,
7:18forgave her the second time.
7:21So this last time I was on the road, I
7:25was in Seattle, Washington.
7:27And uh I called my wife. She answered
7:31the phone
7:33and she was whispering and then she
7:35said, "I gotta go. I'll call you back."
7:39No, she just said, "I got to go."
7:42And so
7:44she just hung the phone up.
7:475 hours later,
7:50cuz I had been trying to call her, she
7:51wasn't answering the phone. 5 hours
7:53later,
7:57she answered the phone.
8:00And I said, "I've been trying to call
8:02you for 5 hours." And he said he was
8:03going to call me back. But what happened
8:06is that she that's her daughter.
8:09They don't like me.
8:13Her she has a daughter by her guy, you
8:16know, relationship.
8:18And my children from my ex-wife don't
8:21like her. That's just how it is.
8:25So it's always a lot of tension and
8:27conflict there.
8:30Um,
8:34my wife let a man in the house that I
8:36told her not to let in the house. I
8:38don't know. You know, so this this time
8:42I said, "You know what? There's so much
8:44inconsistency.
8:46Um,
8:48I need to talk to you when I got home.
9:05and we've been sleeping in separate
9:07rooms
9:09because I told her I'm done.
9:14I said Wednesday. And I had a doctor's
9:16appointment this morning
9:19and I had one Monday
9:23and I have another one July the 15th.
9:30So I told her
9:32uh that I'm leaving her. I know my wife
9:36can't afford that house by herself,
9:40but I I told her, you know, the straw
9:42broke the camel's back and so my wife
9:45snaps a lot. She starts yelling and
9:48screaming and I'm like, "That's the Pop
9:50the Grove and Eleicant Drive coming out
9:52of you cuz that's where she's from." And
9:54um so
9:59um
10:02I came home and I told her, you know, we
10:04talked and she was fine with me. Go
10:07ahead. Go ahead. I don't care. I don't
10:09care. And so um she made me get off her
10:12insurance. So I had just got
10:16my own insurance cuz my car was on Geico
10:19with her. So I just changed it over. So,
10:24I don't know what happened. Um,
10:28she said, "Well, if you leaving me,
10:30leave now." I said, "I'm leaving
10:32Wednesday because I got another doctor's
10:34appointment Wednesday morning out here."
10:37I was going to stay with my mom. My mom
10:39lives all the way over.
10:46So,
10:49she just went on and on and on. And I
10:51went downstairs and I made me four
10:54peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I
10:56came back up in my room, the master
10:58room, and she was sleeping down the
11:01hall, which she was just running, you
11:05and I had just came in from my
11:07daughter's.
11:09She was running her mouth, running her
11:11mouth, blah blah blah blah. And um
11:16she opened the door
11:19and she had the gun
11:22and I and I got up and I said, "What the
11:24hell you think you doing?" And I walked
11:26towards I said, "You think you going to
11:28shoot me? You think you're going to
11:30shoot me?" I said, "You said you don't
11:32want to go to jail cuz you got a weave
11:33on your head. They going to have to take
11:34it off and see that you bald." And she
11:37started yelling. And then I went to grab
11:40the gun
11:41and it went off.
11:44And I panicked
11:46cuz I said, "Ain't nobody going to
11:49believe me."
11:51And I got the gun and I then I threw the
11:54gun away. I threw it down there uh over
11:58the bridge.
12:01>> Which bridge?
12:02>> Right down the street from my house.
12:04>> Okay.
12:06>> You know what I'm talking about. That
12:07little bridge right there on Hookers
12:09Mill.
12:09>> So when you leave your development, you
12:10made a left. No, right.
12:13>> Right. Okay.
12:14>> And I threw the bridge. You threw the
12:16gun there. And I
12:18>> Which side of the bridge did you throw
12:20the gun?
12:20>> On the left side.
12:22And I panicked.
12:24And I was going to I was going to run.
12:27And then I'm I'm telling you, man. You
12:30know, I don't know if you guys got
12:32Christ in you, but if you really got the
12:34spirit in, man, that spirit convicts you
12:36worse than any jail, worse than
12:38anything.
12:40And I called a friend of mine all the
12:42way
12:46and I told her
12:49and uh she said, "Well, you can come
12:51stay here with me and the children." I
12:54didn't tell her exactly, you know, what
12:57happened.
12:59And I told I said, "I can't."
13:05I said, "I got to I got to go back and
13:09call the police
13:12and then I'mma tell them what happened.
13:16They're not going to believe you cuz you
13:18know we had a record in the past and
13:20this." I said, "I don't care, man. I I
13:23got to tell the truth." And so
13:29when they came when I seen all them
13:31police cars
13:34my mind went stupid again and I said I
13:38found it like this
13:40but I didn't
13:44I didn't find it like that and I should
13:48have never bought that gun and
13:52and that's that's what happened. I mean,
13:55it was an accident. She was uh she was
13:58yelling. She was furious. She thought I
14:01was out with some girl named Joanne. She
14:04thought I was doing this and
14:08and um I was telling her we going to get
14:12divorced and we going to have to sell
14:13the house and split the money. And she
14:15said, "I'm not leaving, man."
14:17She flipped out. I mean, she used to
14:20flip out all the time, but she never had
14:22a gun. She would just take a fish and
14:24beat on me and I never had her. I would
14:28just hold her
14:32and that's
14:36okay. I
14:39That's what happened, man. So,
14:42>> yeah, I mean,
14:43>> what what I'm going to do is I'm going
14:45to I'm going to tell you back what you
14:47told me. That way I'm sure I have it
14:49right and I'm I'm not misinterpreting
14:52something. And then I'm going to write
14:54some notes while I'm doing that. And I
14:56might have a couple questions for you
14:58along the way.
14:58>> Yeah.
14:59>> All right.
15:01So
15:04bear with me one second.
15:11When you're describing and talking about
15:14your wife, who are we talking about?
15:16>> Elliot Williams. Okay.
15:18And how long have you and Lillian been
15:21married?
15:22>> 26 years. We 26 years in December.
15:34You say would be 26 in December.
15:37>> December 20.
15:42And
15:45you said that she's cheated on you three
15:47times in the past.
15:50I don't know if it was the same guy.
15:54I didn't actually see him in the act,
15:56but she would disappear five or six
15:59hours. And uh I caught her lying to me
16:03one time. She was over at moral house
16:04with her ex upstairs and she didn't have
16:06nothing more but a night gown. And I and
16:09I surprised her cuz she didn't know I
16:11was in town. And I came home and she
16:14wasn't there. So I went over her
16:15mother's and knocked on the door and her
16:18brother answered the door. And I said,
16:21"Where is Lil?" He said, "Upstairs."
16:24So I said, "Go back down the basement,
16:26Raymond." Cuz I saw her car out there,
16:29her ex, her daughter's phone. And
16:35cuz she worked at downtown Internal
16:37Revenue. And I said,
16:39>> "Who worked at?"
16:40>> My wife
16:41>> Lillian worked at
16:43>> That's where she retired from. She
16:45retired because of me. You know what I
16:48mean? She she she didn't have to work no
16:50more. So, um, she came down and I rang
16:56the bell. She came downstairs
16:59on and I looked and I said,
17:04What are you doing? Oh, I said, "No." I
17:07said, "Where did you just coming from?"
17:09Cuz I can see through the curtain. She
17:11said, "From your kitchen making a
17:12sandwich." I said, "Just now." She said,
17:15"Yeah." I said, "No, you didn't."
17:19I said, "You just came from upstairs
17:23bank up there. You lied to me."
17:27And I said,
17:30"You lied." And I got my card and I came
17:33home. Two hours later she came back and
17:36I said and she tried to justify. She
17:40said, "Well, I was tired." And I said,
17:41"Why you just didn't come home and lay
17:44down if you was tired?" "Oh, David." And
17:47she would always brush [ __ ] off. And I
17:49said, "Uh, why'd you lie to me?" I said,
17:53"You supposed to be a woman of God. I'm
17:55a man of God. Why are you lying to your
17:57husband?"
18:00Well, I didn't want you to get upset.
18:03What did you think I was going to do if
18:05I caught you in an eye? I forgave her
18:08that. That was early in our marriage.
18:11>> So, how when you say early, how many
18:13years?
18:14>> We had been married about 5 years, I
18:16guess.
18:16>> Okay.
18:18And um
18:22the next time that I
18:25when she didn't FaceTime,
18:27she sounded so funny when I called her
18:31and uh
18:35I I called her. I was on the road and I
18:38said, "Hey."
18:40And I was calling her for like 2 hours
18:44and she said, "Uh,
18:46finally she answered and she sounded not
18:50like herself."
18:52And I said, "Where you at? I'm overas."
18:55I said, "Faceetime me." She hung the
18:58phone up on me and I didn't hear from
19:00for five hours.
19:02I'm like, "What the hell is going on?"
19:04So I I was going to make leave it in.
19:06And we had this big argument and um
19:13and I always, you know, I go on my mom's
19:16cuz I'm on the road. She's no need to me
19:17getting no apartment cuz I be going I
19:20mean, and this was supposed to be my
19:22last year on the road.
19:25>> Would she go with you when you travel?
19:26>> No, she wouldn't. She went one time and
19:28she didn't like the truck. She don't
19:30like the way I used to drive. I she
19:32wanted to go to malls and do all this
19:35stuff and
19:36>> so were you an independent owner
19:37operator?
19:38>> I was independent when we first got
19:40married, you know, but um now I work for
19:42a company and um
19:45>> who do you work for?
19:46>> Atlantic Transport
19:48and uh
19:51this last time, man, you know,
19:55I I called her while she was in the
19:57doctor's office.
20:01This is before I came home. And and she
20:04I said, "Where you at?" She said, "I'm
20:06in the doctor's office. I'll call you
20:08when I get out." I said, "Okay."
20:13So, she called me
20:16and we was talking
20:19and all of a sudden, just like that, she
20:21said, "I call you back." Click up. I'm
20:24like, "What the hell is this?" Said,
20:27"You know, I'm on the road. Maybe some
20:30she didn't want me to hear somebody's
20:31voice or somebody, you know, I don't
20:33know. I don't know. I shouldn't have to
20:36worry about that. You call yourself a
20:38woman of God. And so, um,
20:435 hours before I heard from her again,
20:46she sent me a text and man, she goes,
20:50"Still no call." So, I called her. She
20:53answered the phone.
20:56I said, "What are you doing?"
20:59And that's when I said, I told her, it's
21:01a week before I came home. I said,
21:03"Listen, no, it was two weeks." I said,
21:06"Listen,
21:08I don't know what you're doing or who
21:10you doing, but you can do it. Don't call
21:13me no more while I'm on the road and I'm
21:16not going to call you." I said, "Because
21:18I'm a truck driver. I can't be worrying
21:20about what you're doing. I'm hauling
21:22freight, a lot of heavy freight. So, you
21:26go ahead and I'll talk to you when I get
21:28home.
21:31I said, "Cuz I'm not I'm not can't do
21:32this with you no more." So,
21:35um, she always
21:38when I was going to leave, she would
21:40always try to stop me. And so, this time
21:44when I came home, I said, "Well, I got a
21:47doctor's appointment. I had one."
21:51I see. I went to the doctor
21:55today. That was this. No, yesterday.
21:58>> Monday.
21:59>> Monday. No, Monday. I went to
22:02>> Today, right now Tuesday,
22:04>> right? What What's today's date? No, not
22:06not not It's after 12:00. So, this
22:09morning I went to the doctor.
22:12>> So, on June 30th, you went
22:14>> That was Yeah, that was the doctor.
22:18Then I have an appointment the 2nd
22:23and then the next one is the 15th of
22:26July. So I said, "Well, I'm just going
22:28to stay here until Wednesday." It's
22:30Wednesday the 2nd. That's my next
22:32appointment. And I said, "Well, I'm just
22:35going to stay here
22:37until Wednesday."
22:40And and this what I told her tonight cuz
22:42she was just running all like, "Oh, when
22:45I came home from my daughter house, oh,
22:48you been out there talking about me and
22:50you telling everybody my business?
22:54Nobody was talking about you. I was over
22:55there talking to my grandson, my
22:58granddaughter.
22:59I wasn't Nobody was thinking about you.
23:02If you're going to leave me, leave now."
23:04And I said, "Look, go ahead." So I
23:06closed the door. I made me peanut butter
23:09and jelly sandwich and I closed the door
23:13and she kept running her mouth and
23:14running her mouth
23:17and
23:20I forgot. I wasn't even thinking about
23:22the gun,
23:24but she opened the door and I was
23:27shocked cuz she's left-handed.
23:31I always call her lefty.
23:34And uh she was pointing a gun at me and
23:36I was like, "Please, you couldn't hit me
23:38if you tried." I said, "What you gonna
23:41you said you don't want to go to jail
23:42because they gonna have to take your
23:43weave off and you going to be
23:45baldheaded." And uh and she just kept
23:48running her mouth and I got her
23:49attention like with the the jail. And
23:53then I grabbed the gun, you know, and it
23:57went off and uh
24:02Okay.
24:04So,
24:04>> so I don't I don't
24:08>> So, when did you get home from your last
24:10trip?
24:12>> When I just came home.
24:16See, I didn't even know.
24:19>> Thursday.
24:21>> Last Thursday.
24:22>> Yeah.
24:23>> Okay.
24:24>> I got home Thursday. Delivered in LA,
24:27Maryland.
24:28I was supposed to get it off that
24:30Friday, but I got there Thursday and
24:32they took it off early.
24:34And then my wife picked me up from the
24:36truck.
24:37>> I parked at the um Maryland house and
24:41she came and picked me up. We didn't
24:42kiss. We didn't speak. She knew I you
24:46know.
24:49>> And how long have you guys been sleeping
24:51in separate rooms?
24:52>> Since I got home.
24:54>> So that that's just something recent.
24:56>> Yeah.
24:57>> Since Thursday. We would do it
24:59periodically when we would have
25:00arguments, she would always go to the
25:02bathroom because I told her I ain't
25:03never leaving on my room.
25:05>> So when you get to the top of the stairs
25:07>> to the left is my room. To the right is
25:09hers.
25:10>> That that very first room.
25:11>> No, that's the that's her computer room.
25:13>> So the one
25:14>> all the way down to the left.
25:16>> To the left.
25:17>> Yeah.
25:17>> Okay. All right.
25:18>> But she's always on the computer. I
25:21mean, she's addicted to Tik Tok and
25:24all that stuff. So then today you
25:30go and you visit your grandchildren.
25:31>> Yeah. The day I cuz cuz my grandson
25:35wasn't home
25:38so him and his buddies was
25:42working out and um
25:46so cuz I called him about about 3:30
25:50and he said no pap I'm not home yet. I
25:54said what time you going to be home? say
25:55about 5. So I came home and went to bed.
26:00I went to bed and my wife was downstairs
26:03looking at TV.
26:05This is why I don't know how she flipped
26:07out because she was cool about the about
26:10me leaving Wednesday.
26:13But when I left out
26:15at cuz my grandson called me like at
26:186:00. I'm home papa. I'm coming around.
26:22And I said, "Dad, boy, I'm in bed." But
26:24yeah, I'll come around. So, I left the
26:26house at 6 I guess I got over there
26:29about 6:30, 6:38,
26:33something like that. And I stayed over
26:35there for like 2 hours
26:40cuz it was dark, it was raining,
26:44so it's probably about two two hours. I
26:48got home about 8:45,
26:51something like that. And then I had to
26:54and and I couldn't I was pissed
26:59because my wife locked the garage door
27:03and so she had to,
27:07you know, we got this thing where you
27:08can put up under the door handle.
27:10>> Oh, the front door.
27:11>> The front door. Okay.
27:12>> You know, she bought something on
27:14Amazon. And so, um, I had to
27:19I was calling the phone, calling the
27:21house phone. She wouldn't answer. No,
27:23she in there. So, I had to literally
27:27bang the door open
27:29and I said, "Kill, what? Go back where
27:33you came from." And I said, "I was
27:36around the corner seeing my
27:37grandchildren."
27:40And that's, you know, that, you know,
27:43she flipped out. But then I told her I
27:45had to leave cuz I went to get I was
27:48going to Royal Phone to get cigarettes.
27:50But I remembered I had cigarettes in my
27:53I had a carton in my truck. And um
27:58so
28:01you get home about 8:30, you try to get
28:04in the house, you can't. So you you kick
28:06the door in because she has something up
28:08against the inside.
28:09>> Yeah.
28:11>> You have you have words, you know.
28:13>> No. Well, yeah. Yeah.
28:15>> I'm not saying you're fighting, but
28:17you've got words. She's got a lot of
28:19them.
28:20>> Okay. So, is that when you made the
28:22peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?
28:24>> I made Yeah.
28:25>> You got home at 8:30?
28:27>> Well, since she when I got home, Yeah.
28:29we had words, but she had to get on the
28:32phone to talk. She was talking to AT&T
28:35cuz the alarm system went blank cuz of
28:37the storm. We didn't have nothing. No,
28:40no alarm system. And so she was on the
28:43phone and I was making sandwiches
28:46and I made four peanut butter jelly
28:47sandwiches and went upstairs and put my
28:50pajamas on, got in my bed and I was
28:54watching TV, FBI, I think matter of
28:56fact, whatever time they come on, but I
28:59didn't see the beginning of it, but
29:00that's what I was watching. And um
29:05>> then she comes to the door.
29:07>> She went Yeah. She opened the door and
29:10just started you and with a suitcase.
29:13You ain't got to wait till Wednesday. I
29:15want you out of here now.
29:17>> She had a suitcase.
29:18>> Yeah. She put brought the suitcase in my
29:20room.
29:21>> She had a suitcase for you to pack your
29:23>> Yeah. I said, "I'm not going nowhere
29:25tonight. I told you I'm leaving
29:26Wednesday cuz I got a doctor's
29:29appointment out here." So,
29:32>> And did she have it at that point?
29:34>> No.
29:34>> No. So she went back, kept talking
29:37throughout the whole time and I got back
29:39up and closed the door
29:42and I was looking at TV
29:44and uh she came in there yelling and
29:47screaming and um with this gun and I I
29:52was shocked.
29:53>> What kind of gun was it?
29:55>> It's either a 38 or 357.
29:59>> Okay. Now, is it a semi-automatic or
30:01>> No, this one. It's old.
30:04>> What color is it?
30:06>> It's It's like gray and brown.
30:09>> Okay.
30:10>> The handle's brown and it's gray. I
30:13think it's a 38. See, 38 or 357.
30:17She went to the gun range before, but
30:21>> now this might sound silly, but I'm
30:23going to ask it anyway.
30:25>> Did you finish your sandwiches?
30:27Um, by the time she done Yeah, I think
30:30Well, I don't know if I finished. I
30:32think Yeah, because I take the edges
30:34off. Yeah, because I was watching FBI. I
30:36finished my sandwiches and I was sitting
30:38in the bed.
30:39>> Did you take the edges off before you
30:40went up to your room or you took it off
30:43while you were
30:43>> No, I take my ed just the top part.
30:46>> Yeah.
30:46>> Yeah, cuz it's too tough.
30:48>> I do the same thing.
30:49>> Yeah, I take it off.
30:51>> Did you do that in your bedroom or you
30:52did that?
30:52>> I did that in my bedroom. Well, no, wait
30:54a minute. I'm sorry. I did that in my
30:56kitchen. I took the top off in the
30:59kitchen.
30:59>> Then when I got upstairs and I was
31:01eating it, then I took a little bit off
31:04the sides.
31:05>> Did you have it on a plate or anything?
31:06>> Paper plate. Still in it. Should be
31:09still in my room.
31:10>> Okay. So, she shows up the second time
31:14at the door with the gun.
31:15>> Yeah. She opened the door and say, "I
31:17want you out of here now." And I
31:21>> And which hand did she have the gun in?
31:22>> In her left hand.
31:23>> In her left. Okay. And is she in the
31:26doorway? Is she inside?
31:27>> She's in the doorway. And I got up and I
31:30start walking towards her like, "You
31:32going to shoot me? What? You going to
31:33shoot me? You know, you said you don't
31:35want to go to jail cuz they going to
31:37have to take that weave off and
31:38everybody know you bald. So you going to
31:40shoot me?" And when I got close enough,
31:42I grabbed it and went back a little bit
31:44right by the steps and the gun went off.
31:49Now, were you on the window side of the
31:52bed or the door side of the bed?
31:55>> The door side of the bed. Yeah, I always
31:56sleep. That's where I sleep at.
31:58>> Okay.
31:58>> Closer to the door.
31:59>> Okay.
32:01>> And uh
32:01>> so you're out in the hallway near the
32:03steps.
32:04>> Right.
32:05>> So, if if I'm her and I have the gun,
32:08where's the gun pointed?
32:09>> It's pointed at me.
32:10>> At you, right? And what do you
32:11>> And I grabbed did like this and tried to
32:14push her away and grab the gun and it
32:16went off. Okay.
32:18It went off. No.
32:20>> And then when the gun goes off, what
32:22happens?
32:23>> She fell.
32:25>> And where did she fall at?
32:27>> Right there by the in the hall and in
32:30the computer room cuz the computer room
32:32was right by the steps. And she fell
32:35there and I said, "Li."
32:38Then I seen all this blood.
32:42And I freaked out. I ain't never seen
32:44that much blood. I freaked out.
32:47I freaked out. I freaked the [ __ ] out,
32:49man.
32:50>> Did you know where she was shot at?
32:52>> No. I wouldn't even turn over cuz I
32:54ain't want to look at her.
32:56>> Was she on her on her stomach, on her
32:58back, or
32:59>> She was like this. She was this part of
33:02her body was on on the ground.
33:04>> She kind of face down.
33:06>> She was. And her, you know, and her legs
33:08were kind of crossed or on top of each
33:12other.
33:13>> And then what did you do at that point?
33:15>> I panic.
33:17What did you do?
33:18>> I got the gun. I picked the gun up cuz
33:21the gun and eventually fell and I
33:24grabbed the gun and
33:28said I I think I kept trying to wake her
33:31up
33:33for like 10 minutes
33:36since she wasn't responding.
33:40And I kept
33:42jabbing. And I said, "Li."
33:45And
33:47she wasn't moving.
33:52And
33:54And I grabbed my medicine and I I said,
33:57"I'm running." I was going to run.
34:00Medicine for what?
34:16>> Were you still in your pajamas?
34:18>> No. Oh, no. I wasn't in my pajamas. So,
34:21>> you changed your clothes?
34:23>> Yeah. I had I just slipped these pants
34:25on that head early.
34:26>> Grabbed your medicine. You were going to
34:27run. and I was going to run and I was
34:30driving down
34:3395 and I called some this girl I know
34:37and um she's a real good friend
34:41and I told her that I was in trouble
34:46and I didn't tell her who
34:50I told her I said
34:52I was in a fight the argument guy pulled
34:55a gun out on me and I grabbed it and
34:57went off and shot him. And I told her,
35:00"I got to leave.
35:03There's a lot of witnesses."
35:07She said, "Well,
35:09you nobody saw you."
35:12And I said, "No,
35:16I'm not coming there."
35:20I said, "But I did it and I'm going to
35:23deal with the consequences cuz I'll be
35:25convicted wherever I go. or I won't be
35:27able to live with myself. I know I know
35:30how the Holy I know how the spirit deals
35:33with me.
35:34And um
35:39and so I I was coming back home and I
35:43stopped by the woods and I got out and I
35:45threw the gun
35:48in those woods.
35:50>> Did you throw it in the woods or in the
35:52stream or
35:52>> I don't even know, man. It was dark. I
35:54just threw it.
35:56>> I don't know where it landed. It was
35:58pitch black outside.
36:00>> So, I'm just I'm just going to draw.
36:02>> So, I'm quite sure you'll find it. There
36:05ain't nobody going out there.
36:11>> So, this is the road to your
36:12development, right?
36:14>> So, if you come out of your development,
36:16make a right.
36:17>> You make a right. And then we'll just
36:19say
36:20>> do it on this side cuz I was coming back
36:22this way.
36:23>> And I pull it over
36:24>> on this side.
36:25>> Yeah.
36:25>> Now, were you on the bridge or at the
36:28bridge?
36:29>> At the bridge. I wasn't on it.
36:30>> Okay. Were you on this side of the
36:33bridge or
36:33>> Yes, on that side of the bridge.
36:35>> On this side of the bridge.
36:36>> Yeah.
36:37>> And you threw it on that side
36:39>> in the in the woods, you think?
36:42>> Yes.
36:43>> How far did you think you threw it?
36:45>> Not far. You just kind of toss it or did
36:47you I give it a real good
36:48>> No, I didn't give it a real good
36:49nothing. I was
36:52>> I was just totally discombobulated, man.
36:54I like
36:58I just I just had to tell the truth. I
37:01can't live with that lie. My damn wife.
37:03Yeah. Can you tell me is she all right?
37:06>> No, sir. She's died.
37:08>> Oh, come on, man.
37:10No, man. Come on with that [ __ ]
37:13man.
37:16The [ __ ] you talking about? She died,
37:18man. God,
37:23don't tell me that [ __ ] babe.
37:27How the [ __ ] did she die?
37:31She She died. What? She She was dead in
37:33there.
37:34>> Yes.
37:37>> Oh, [ __ ] man.
37:43You wanted to die, man.
37:48You wanted to die, man. I wanted to die.
37:51Lord, please forgive me.
37:57Jesus. Lord. Jesus.
38:01Man,
38:03can't believe she died, man.
38:07We had arguments, but
38:13>> I know you said that you guys had some
38:16issues in the past and she would hit you
38:18and stuff.
38:19>> Oh, she was she been a fighter all her
38:21life, man.
38:22>> Was the police ever called your house
38:24for anything? Any kind of domestic
38:26issues or
38:29>> I haven't looked yet, so I just fig
38:31>> I don't know.
38:33I think me and her was having an
38:35argument one time and her daughter
38:37called the police and her daughter
38:39wasn't even there. She just heard us
38:41arguing over the phone
38:43and uh I was in the bed.
38:46>> How long ago was that?
38:47>> And that was that's probably about 20
38:49years ago.
38:53>> Have you always lived there on
38:56>> 2001?
38:58>> Okay.
39:00[ __ ] You going to sit up here and tell
39:01me she died, man?
39:06[ __ ] man. I'm not going to lie to you,
39:08sir.
39:13>> You said you were going to be a man and
39:14tell me the truth.
39:15>> I had to, man. I had to. I can't live
39:18with that.
39:19>> I'm not going to sit here and tell you
39:20she she's okay when she's not.
39:28Jesus.
39:31>> Can I ask you a question?
39:34>> Why didn't you call 911?
39:36>> I did call 911.
39:37>> I mean I mean when it happened,
39:41I panicked.
39:43I just panicked. I seen all that blood
39:47was splattered on the wall.
39:51And uh I actually I thought she was
39:53going to get up and call the police.
39:56And then when I came back and she was
39:58still there,
40:01I mean, I called 911.
40:05>> So you said after after you had that
40:08tussle with the gun and it went off. It
40:10was about 10 minutes until you left the
40:12house.
40:15>> I don't know how long. No, I think I
40:18left before 10 minutes. Okay.
40:20>> I tried to wake up, tried to get up off
40:22the floor.
40:25So when you left the house until you
40:27came back, how long do you think that
40:29was?
40:29>> I was going 30 minutes, maybe 28. I
40:33wasn't going that long.
40:35>> Okay.
40:36>> I went to I went to I went to
40:41to get on the highway and then I got on
40:4495 and then I took exit 74 and came back
40:48home.
40:51I guess it about 10 minutes, 15 minutes.
40:59This is This is not right.
41:09>> Um,
41:11what what pajamas were you wearing when
41:14this happened?
41:16>> Um,
41:17my the black and white ones. They should
41:21be in the in the um
41:24right there in the in my vehicle with
41:27the um
41:28>> Is it
41:29>> with the white shirt?
41:31>> So, black and white bottoms, pants.
41:34>> Mhm.
41:34>> And a white shirt.
41:36>> Black and gray pants.
41:38>> Black and gray pants and a white shirt.
41:40>> Yeah.
41:41>> T-shirt or
41:42>> It's a long shirt. It's got
41:45Chinese I mean spaghetti sauce on it or
41:48something. I spilled on when I was
41:49eating dirty.
41:50>> Is that on your that on your bed or on
41:52the floor or?
41:53>> No, that's on my shirt.
41:54>> No, I mean your clothes.
41:56>> Oh, it's probably I don't know where I
42:00put it. Probably on the bed on
42:02right there. Just easily see it. See the
42:06bed on the chair or it's in there.
42:16Is there anything else, sir, that you
42:19think we need to know right now?
42:27>> I can't believe this.
42:31>> Well, we're going to step out of the
42:32room for a little bit.
42:33>> Can I use that bathroom?
42:34>> Yeah, we'll we'll get you to the
42:35bathroom.
42:37>> Yeah.
42:38>> You need something to eat or
42:40>> No, I ain't took no medicine.
42:42tonight. But I ain't ate a whole lot. I
42:45only ate four peanut butter and jelly
42:46sandwich.
42:48>> That's a lot of sugar.
42:50>> What?
42:51>> Peanut butter and the jelly.
42:52>> Well, the jelly I just put a thin layer
42:55of jelly on. But uh
42:57>> Oh, I can't eat just a little bit of
42:58jelly. Peanut butter.
42:59>> I do. I I do because this
43:09>> Oh, this is good.
43:10>> We'll get you. We'll get you to the
43:12bathroom and we're going to bring you
43:13back in. Um then we got to chitchat for
43:15a little bit
43:16>> and we'll let you know where we're going
43:18from here. Okay.
43:19>> All right. All right.
43:21>> We'll get you to the to the
43:24>> You can leave your water here because
43:26back in
43:44Following the interrogation, David
43:45Williams remained charged in the death
43:47of his wife, Lillian Williams. The case
43:50moved forward in the circuit court for
43:51Harford County. Prosecutors said Lillian
43:54was shot and killed upstairs inside the
43:56couple's Abington home on June 30th,
43:582025.
44:00At trial, the state presented evidence
44:02that Williams was the only other person
44:04inside the residence at the time of the
44:05shooting. Prosecutors also said that
44:08after the shooting, Williams left the
44:10home, discarded the gun in a wooded
44:12area, returned about an hour later, and
44:14then called 911. Williams went to trial
44:17in April of 2026.
44:20On April 17th, 2026, after a 5-day jury
44:24trial before Judge Alex Almond, he was
44:26found guilty of first-degree murder, use
44:28of a firearm in a felony or crime of
44:30violence, possession of a regulated
44:32firearm by a prohibited person,
44:34possession of ammunition by a prohibited
44:36person, and impairing the availability
44:38of physical evidence. After the verdict,
44:41Williams remained in custody at the
44:43Harford County Detention Center. As of
44:45the state's attorney's April 17th, 2026
44:48release, a sentencing date had not yet
44:51been listed. The court was expected to
44:53schedule that hearing after the
44:55completion of a pre-sentence
44:56investigation.
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