P. v. Williams CA2/3
On August 31, 1984, police found Ebora Alexander, age 58, dead in her Los Angeles home from multiple gunshot wounds to the head. Alexander apparently had been shot while sitting at her kitchen table having breakfast. Police also discovered the bodies of Alexander’s 24-year-old daughter Dietria and two of Alexander’s grandsons, ages 13 and eight. All three had been shot execution style in their beds. (Williams I, supra, 16 Cal.4th at pp. 647, 649.)
About six months later, detectives arrested Williams in Northern California. After waiving his Miranda rights, Williams first told the officers he’d heard about the murders but he hadn’t been involved. Later, he admitted he’d been at the Alexander house but claimed he’d run away as soon as the other man who was with him, Tiequon Cox, started shooting. (Williams I, supra, 16 Cal.4th at pp. 648, 650, 656.) Both Cox and a third man, Horace Burns, were arrested as well.
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