DECATUR, Ga. – There’s no doubt to the DeKalb County Police that a murder occurred inside the home that Millicent Williams shared with her grandson—and his arrest warrants detail her alleged fatal demise.
The DeKalb County Police arrested Gregory Williams, 37, for his grandmother's "suspicious" disappearance last week, charging him with aggravated assault, kidnapping and theft by taking vehicle, and was a “person of interest” in her disappearance on Thursday.
By Friday, he was a suspect and on Saturday, he was charged with his grandmother’s murder.
“The fact there was overwhelming circumstantial evidence at the crime scene… There were things that were found that showed that harm had been caused, brought to her, as well as the fact that nobody had had contact with her for over nine days,” Shiera Campbell, DeKalb County Police spokeswoman, said.
Police searched Millicent's Decatur home on Thursday, located on Brookgreen Point, where they believe the 78-year-old was the victim of foul play, after finding blood inside.
“We saw signs of a struggle at the scene, so, that raised our suspicions—and that forced us to act," Capt. J.A. Lewis, of the major crimes unit, said.
While Millicent is still missing, her grandson’s arrest warrants indicate what happened to her.
“Accused did make an assault upon the person Millicent Williams with a Rambo style [sic] knife a deadly weapon or with any object/device/instrument which when used offensively is likely to or actually does result in serious bodily injury by forcing entry into her bedroom and attacking her.”
Police answered a concerned call from Gregory’s father, who found bloody sheets in the garage, as well as “a lot of blood” on the bed and floor.
Gregory, according to the warrant for his arrest for her murder, said with “malice aforethought cause the death of his grandmother.”
The warrant continued to detail that he attacked her in her bedroom and put her body in her 2014 Toyota Corolla and drove it to an unknown location—police found blood inside the car, where they also found mud on the tires and in the trunk area. Police noted in the warrant that there were CDs in the trunk, some broken from “pressure.”
Gregory has not told police where his grandmother is located and was transported to the DeKalb County Jail Thursday afternoon.
DeKalb County Court records indicate a tumultuous past between Gregory and his grandmother.
Millicent, known as “Millie,” filed two violence orders of protection between 2011-2014, restricting him from her home. She cited in her request to the court that he verbally and physically abused and threatened her.
During the week of July 25, 2011, Millie filed a petition for temporary protective order fearing for her life.
"Walking around house naked. Telling family members to perform oral sex on him. Constantly approaching me to hit me and telling me, 'I better watch myself.' He pushed me up against the wall. Verbally threatening me every day. Challenging multiple neighbors to fight and going to their homes. Threatening to rape me—making sexual remarks. I am his grandmother. He is mentally ill and a vet."
Millie stated that three days later, he "took keys out of my purse and locked me in. He cut the phone line. At the time [sic] he locked me in, he was locked in his room."
On Dec. 4, 2014, she told police that he broke objects in her home, scared her by rushing up on her and slammed her hand in a door.
When he did not comply with the court-imposed family violence protection orders, which stated that he could not approach his 78-year-old grandmother within 100 yards, he was charged with violating those orders, as well as aggravated stalking.
Just before Christmas in 2014, Millicent Williams told police that her grandson, a veteran with PTSD, threatened to kill her.
“If you try to open my door, I’ll crack your neck,” she told police in her petition for a protective order against her grandson, Gregory Anthony Williams, who she said did not take his medication for PTSD--and, who is now, a suspect in her ‘suspicious’ disappearance.
According to the U.S. Army, Gregory was an E-2 private. His service spanned from November 1999 to May 2002 as a petroleum lab specialist. He is no longer serving and was never deployed, Valerie L. Mongello, Army spokeswoman, said.
Police searched for the missing grandmother at her home and surrounding wooded area last week, as well as Flat Shoals Park, which is about three miles away. K-9 units, cadaver dogs and concerned family members searched through thick brush and woods near a lake, after Millie’s cell phone pinged near the park. Over the weekend, divers searched nearby water, and they plan on continuing their search Monday afternoon.
If you have any information about her whereabouts, call 911 or the DeKalb County Police at (678) 406-7929.
PHOTOS | Search for Millie has spanned the last week and several acres in DeKalb County.
