'You dead?': Husband executes wife after shooting at teenage stepson as 4-year-old sleeps in bedroom, then smokes a cigarette near her body

A 48-year-old Georgia antheral cornered his woman successful the room and murdered her earlier asking her "you dead, [expletive]?" and past lighting up a cigaret adjacent her assemblage portion awaiting cops.

Kelvin Demond Williams was convicted Thursday of murder and aggravated battle on with different charges successful the decease of his 48-year-old woman Tenisha Williams and shooting of his stepson, according to the Cherokee County District Attorney's Office. Superior Court Judge Shannon Wallace sentenced Williams to beingness successful situation without parole positive 100 years.

The shooting occurred astir 10:40 p.m. connected July 13, 2025, astatine a location connected Daventry Crossing successful Woodstock, which is astir 10 miles northbound of Marietta. A 16-year-old lad called 911 to accidental his stepfather was shooting astatine him and changeable his mother. He was hiding successful a chamber portion his 4-year-old member slept successful different room.

When cops arrived, they recovered the fishy lasting successful the room smoking a cigarette. They took him into custody earlier going wrong and uncovering Tenisha Williams dormant from a gunshot coiled successful the room with the execution limb connected the room island. Deputies past removed the teen and 4-year-old who were not physically wounded from the home.

Jurors during the astir 4-day proceedings viewed in-home camera footage which captured the shooting. It showed the suspect firing the archetypal changeable astatine his stepson's head, which missed. He fired 2 much shots astatine his woman and different astatine his stepson arsenic helium ran to his room, each of which missed the mark.

Kelvin Williams past cornered her arsenic she begged him not to shoot. The 5th and last changeable proved fatal. After helium fired, helium stood implicit her assemblage and said "you dead, [expletive]?"

Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Rachel Ashe, who prosecuted the case, said the grounds was "overwhelming." Jurors deliberated for little than an hour.

"Over the people of years, the suspect systematically isolated his woman and controlled her movements, adjacent requiring her to deterioration a Bluetooth instrumentality truthful helium could show her erstwhile she near the home," Ashe said. "Evidence showed that connected the time of the murder, helium had her acquisition and load the firearm helium would aboriginal usage to termination her. To this day, the suspect has shown nary remorse, lone indifference and cruelty."

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Family members astatine sentencing described the defendant's control implicit her arsenic truthful strict that she was not allowed to talk with her big children nor permitted to be her ain mother's funeral.

The justice said Kelvin Williams' actions were "unfathomable."

District Attorney Susan K. Treadaway said the unit inflicted upon the unfortunate was "evil and inexcusable."

"We are profoundly grateful to the jury, who were asked to ticker and perceive things nary 1 should ever person to experience," she said. "They did truthful with care, courage, and a committedness to justice. Our hearts spell retired to the guiltless children who volition beryllium everlastingly affected by this senseless, brutal murder."