15 Balfour Road West Palm Beach Gardens Fl Keller Williams
A homeless "monster" with a long rap sheet has been arrested for randomly stabbing to death a 14-year-old Florida schoolboy who went missing during a bike ride, police announced Thursday.
Semmie Lee Williams, 39, was arrested in Miami late Wednesday in connection to the Nov. 15 slaying of high school freshman Ryan Rogers, authorities confirmed at a press conference.
Palm Beach Gardens police chief Clinton Shannon said that the teen had been "stabbed to death" by a "dangerous monster."
"This appears to be a completely random act. We do not have a motive," Shannon said.
"I would best describe it as an innocent child victim having a chance encounter with a very violent criminal," Shannon said, calling Williams a "homeless drifter."
Ryan's body was found hidden in a wooded area just 215 feet from a busy Interstate 95 overpass in Palm Beach Gardens on Nov. 16, the day after his family reported him missing, an affidavit said. An autopsy showed the boy had been "stabbed numerous times in the head and face," the affidavit said.
Williams was linked through DNA on blood-covered headphones left near the body, the documents said. His DNA was in a database because of his lengthy record that has included time in jail, as well as a mental hospital.
Detectives then used Williams' disturbing YouTube videos — in which he rants disturbing conspiracy theories — to track him down to about 80 miles away in Miami, sources told The Miami Herald. The videos also put him in Palm Beach at the time of the murder, the paper said.
He was tracked down on Friday, but "denied any interaction with the victim" during interviews, the arrest affidavit said.
He was initially committed to a hospital under Florida's Baker Act, which allows for the involuntary commitment of someone who is a danger to himself or others, the local paper said.
However, tests on a blood-stained bandana he was found with then tested positive for Ryan's blood, the affidavit said.
Williams was then arrested Wednesday and charged and first-degree murder with a weapon.
He made his first court appearance Thursday and was ordered held without bond.
He has a long rap sheet stretching nearly 20 years, with arrests in several states, including Georgia and California, where he was deemed a "fugitive from justice," police said.
They include charges for domestic battery, carrying a concealed weapon and violating restraining orders, including one taken out against him by his mother, records show. His mother did not return a call seeking comment.
Williams pleaded guilty three years ago in Atlanta to aggravated assault involving strangulation for attacking an elderly man, a case that was delayed for four years because Williams was found mentally incompetent to assist in his defense.
Williams had jumped the man, beat his head and put him in a tight chokehold — leaving him unable to breathe and about to pass out until passersby intervened, transcripts of the 2018 court hearing show.
Williams threw the victim into a ravine, leaving him with a permanent arm injury, and ran away, getting arrested nearby.
"I'm lucky to be alive. The intent was to kill me," the victim told Judge Thomas A. Cox Jr. at the time.
Williams had served four years in jail and a mental hospital. Prosecutors wanted an additional year, but Cox released him on time served because he had no prior felony convictions.
The judge ordered Williams to leave Georgia immediately upon release and travel by bus to central Florida to live with his mother, who had agreed to care for him. He was to serve five years probation in Florida.
Williams' YouTube videos also showed a disturbed mind, rambling about conspiracies and with titles like "gang stalking" and "evil stalkers standing in the middle of the road," the Miami paper said.
He appeared to upload multiple times a day, filming innocent people who he insisted were stalking him, "attacking" him 24 hours a day and also trying to control his mind.
One video complains about "police, they hit me with electric weapons to give me cancer."
"They have chips planted all over my body right and they reading my mind through my ears and they be tearing up my shoes," another says.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/florida-cops-arrest-suspect-linked-to-mysterious-killing-of-14-year-old-ryan-rodgers/
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