We know from our own independent research that Jeffrey Williams was in a fight in front of the police station (link). We have also discovered there was only 27 seconds from the time his red Pontiac Grand Am drove up to the moment shots rang out (link).
However, this latest revelation included in the Williams search warrant eliminates even the slightest possibility of innocence.
Jeffrey Williams told a confidential police source about the shooting.
The police then wired the source with a microphone and hidden camera for a conversation with Jeffrey Williams.
Williams admitted the shooting and gave specific details of the entire event on audio and video.
This recorded admission led to a search warrant. The search warrant yielded the weapon used and other evidence. The details of the sting are on pages 3, 4, and 5 of the search warrant.
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As reported in Yahoo News:
[…] 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.
Williams, according to the warrant, also admitted to the police source that he still had the .40-caliber handgun used in the shooting.
The confidential informant drove Williams back to his girlfriend’s apartment. The informant left, and a surveillance team set up to watch the apartment, which is located about 4 miles east of the Ferguson Police Department.
About 10:30 p.m. on March 15, Williams walked out of the apartment and toward the same red Pontiac Grand Am he had allegedly driven the night of the shooting. Officers moved in and took Williams into custody. Williams, who was already wanted for violating his probation in an unrelated theft case, was arrested without incident, according to a spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department.
Williams, according to the warrant, had left the apartment’s front door slightly ajar. Detectives approached the apartment, and Williams’ pregnant girlfriend came from downstairs to meet the officers.
“Based on the circumstances of the incident, particularly the violent nature of the assault, the detectives initiated a protective sweep of the residence for any subjects who may have remained inside,” the warrant states.
No others were in the apartment, but officers found a Hi-Point .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol on the floor in a front bedroom. According to the warrant, investigators also recovered three gun magazines; .40, .38 and .32-caliber bullets; a blue plastic mask; cell phones; and various pieces of clothing.
Detectives collected DNA and fingerprints from the Pontiac, which is owned by Williams’ girlfriend. According to the warrant, she provided a “voluntary and thorough statement” saying that Williams was using the car on the night of the shooting. (read more)
