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Left: Tyrique Williams (Pulaski County Jail). Right: Annie Lock (Fayetteville Police Department).
Authorities person arrested a U.S. Army worker from North Carolina during his basal grooming aft helium allegedly murdered his large girlfriend, ditched her assemblage successful a pond and joined different pistillate 2 months later.
Private First Class Tyrique Zavier Leroy Williams, 26, stands accused of first-degree murder and concealment of decease successful the slaying of 24-year-old Annie Lock, who was past seen successful August and recovered dormant connected Sunday successful a pond adjacent the intersection of State Road 72 West and Buie Philadelphus Road successful Red Springs, a municipality located astir 115 miles southeast of Charlotte.
Lock was past seen Aug. 17 connected Kiana Lane successful Fayetteville but not reported missing until Oct. 10, the Fayetteville Police Department said successful a press release. Local NBC affiliate WRAL spoke with Lock’s household who said Williams told them successful August that helium would record a missing persons report. Her household besides had cops halt by Williams and Lock’s flat but helium said she wasn’t home.
But immoderate 2 months later, not lone had Williams allegedly failed to record that study — helium had besides joined different woman.
“I recovered retired successful October due to the fact that I questioned him. I said ‘have detectives reached backmost retired to you successful notation of anything?’ He said ‘I didn’t record a report,'” her sister Tanya Lock told section ABC affiliate WTVD.
Her household reported her missing. Family members told WTVD that she was 5 weeks large erstwhile she disappeared.
On Sunday, deputies from the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office recovered Lock’s badly-decomposed body from the pond successful Red Springs, astir 30 miles from Lock’s past known location.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division arrested Williams astatine Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He was completing his basal grooming with the 35th Engineer Battalion, a spokesperson told Law&Crime successful an email. He was past transported to the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office wherever helium remains successful jailhouse awaiting extradition backmost to North Carolina. WTVD reports Williams arrived astatine the Army basal connected March 12.
The past fewer months person been excruciating for Lock’s family.
“I recovered retired this connected my day that my kid was gone,” Tanya Whitehead, Lock’s mother, told the TV presumption portion warring backmost tears. “You took idiosyncratic distant from her family. She ne'er did thing wrong.”
Cops person not released a origin of decease oregon a motive for the slaying. Neighbors of the mates said they did not get on precise well.
“They would beryllium extracurricular pushing each different and worldly similar that,” a neighbour told WTVD.
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