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Ferguson Shooting Suspect Confessed on Hidden Camera, Warrant Reveals
Yahoo! News ^ | Monday, March 23, 2015 | Jason Sickles

Posted on 03/23/2015 5:41:55 PM PDT by kristinn

A confidential informant wearing a hidden video camera recorded accused gunman Jeffrey L. Williams admitting that he fired the shots that seriously wounded two police officers during a recent demonstration in Ferguson, Mo., according to search warrants obtained by Yahoo News.

Williams was arrested March 15 and charged with two counts of first-degree assault, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle and three counts of armed criminal action. An officer from the St. Louis County Police Department was struck in the shoulder. A member of the nearby Webster Groves Police Department was hit below his right eye. Both are now recovering at home.

At a news conference announcing the arrest, St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said that Williams’ confession was key to bringing the charges but declined to give details of how the admission was obtained.

Jerryl T. Christmas, Williams’ attorney, told Yahoo News last week that his client said “he never fired a weapon” and was recanting his confession. Christmas claimed that officers pistol-whipped Williams during the arrest, allegations the St. Louis County Police called false.

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But detectives caught a break when the informant stepped forward March 14. The source was outfitted with a hidden camera and sent to the apartment of Williams’ girlfriend. According to the affidavit, Williams went outside and got into the front passenger seat of a car driven by the informant

The pair drove throughout North St. Louis County while discussing the shooting. They ultimately went to Ferguson and the location where the shots were fired.

“The suspect then told the [confidential source] that he discharged a handgun at unknown individual(s) from an area which was consistent with the location of the fired cartridge casings,” the affidavit alleges.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: ferguson
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1 posted on 03/23/2015 5:41:55 PM PDT by kristinn
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2 posted on 03/23/2015 5:43:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

why is old slippery Al opposed to Saltine Crackers? ? ??


3 posted on 03/23/2015 5:47:08 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: ptsal
salt...saltine...salt.....somethin bout dem JOOS!


4 posted on 03/23/2015 5:48:53 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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lol


5 posted on 03/23/2015 5:54:12 PM PDT by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: kristinn

Pistol whipping makes serious marks, not those little boo boos.


6 posted on 03/23/2015 5:59:12 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: kristinn

D’OH!


7 posted on 03/23/2015 6:02:47 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: kristinn

Sorta blows that “they beat the confession out of him” claim, huh?


8 posted on 03/23/2015 6:55:59 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: kristinn

These sound like very light charges for shooting two policemen. I suspect prosecutorial political correctness and cowardice.


9 posted on 03/23/2015 7:01:18 PM PDT by Stingray51
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To: kristinn

Jerryl T. Christmas...He no bueno.

Waiting for the next alibi.

I’m trying to imagine Williams being so stupid he decided to go to a place full of cops to shoot somebody he had a beef with.


10 posted on 03/23/2015 7:27:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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No es bueno, but that white suit and matching megaphone of his es muy cool.


11 posted on 03/23/2015 8:23:50 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: ArmstedFragg

My attorney has a megaphone too.


12 posted on 03/23/2015 8:28:19 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Stingray51

The charges are consistent with what he’s alleged to have done. The first degree assault charges combined with the armed criminal action add up to assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.


13 posted on 03/23/2015 8:29:17 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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With recent priors, what sentence in MO does that rate?


14 posted on 03/23/2015 8:43:28 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
Pistol whipping makes serious marks, not those little boo boos.

I thought they found a video of him being beaten down by a large Black man earlier in the evening...

15 posted on 03/24/2015 4:32:40 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ArmstedFragg

The shooter was some distance away from the officers. Was he shooting at the officers or did his shots miss a closer target and strike the officers in the distance?


16 posted on 03/24/2015 4:40:37 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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Same charge either way.


17 posted on 03/24/2015 1:25:36 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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To: ArmstedFragg

I am sure the charges are consistent with the facts. But if a white man fired a handgun and the bullets struck two policemen, chances are that he would be charged with attempted murder. It’s darn hard to hit anything with a handgun at a long distance and it’s quite a coincidence that he happened to hit two police officers.


18 posted on 03/25/2015 8:35:30 PM PDT by Stingray51
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There’s no such charge as attempted murder in the Missouri criminal code.


19 posted on 03/25/2015 8:48:41 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (Hoaxey Dopey Changey)
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