Man gets three life sentences, no parole in murder of 3 young girls
WASHINGTON - Antonio Williams was sentenced Friday to three terms of life without parole for the first-degree murders of three young girls in August 2017.
Williams was found guilty in Prince George's County in January 2023 for the murders of 6-year-old Nadira Janae’ Withers, 9-year-old Ariana Elizabeth DeCree, and 6-year-old Ajayah Royale DeCree. Williams was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree child abuse resulting in death.
On August 18, 2017, the mother of Antonio Williams returned home from working a nursing shift and found her daughter, Nadira, and two visiting cousins, Ariana and Ajayah, unresponsive with stab wounds in the basement bedroom. All three children were left in Williams' care, who was 25 at the time.
Police: Suspect confessed to killing sister, 2 cousins in Clinton, Maryland home
Prince George's County police say the man arrested in connection to the deaths of three children inside a Clinton, Maryland home confessed to killing his sister and two cousins while they were sleeping.
Williams confessed to police he grabbed a knife from the kitchen, went downstairs to where the girls were sleeping, and killed all three. He then cleaned the knife, put it back in the kitchen and washed the clothes he was wearing.
Chaos erupts in courtroom as man accused of killing 3 girls in Clinton, Maryland appears in court
The bond review hearing for the suspect accused of stabbing three little girls to death Friday, ended in chaos Monday.