Inset: Carolynn Williams (Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound). Background: The home of Carolynn Williams where she was fatally shot (KCPQ/YouTube).
Video footage released by police in Washington state this week shows a pair of alleged killers strolling up to a family home — pausing for a moment as a neighbor drives by — before opening fire on the residence and killing a mother of five.
Carolynn Williams, 45, was in the middle of getting her feet rubbed by her husband, Charles Williams, when the suspects fatally shot her in the head last February, according to Charles Williams and local police. Four of her children were asleep inside the home when the shooting happened that night at around 1:21 a.m., the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office reported.
“As soon as I heard the first shot, I told her they was shooting and I told her to come follow me,” Charles Williams recalled in an interview with Seattle Fox affiliate KCPQ earlier this year. “But she had already been hit.”
Charles Williams and the children were unharmed in the Feb. 24, 2023, shooting. His wife died from injuries related to a gunshot wound to the head on March 2, 2023.
“Once I heard the gunshots stop, it was the most terrifying feeling in the world because I thought they were coming in to kill everybody,” Charles told KCPQ.
Investigators believe that while the Williams home was targeted in the attack, she was not the actual target. It’s unclear whether Charles may have been who the shooters were after or someone else who has been seen at the home, with police not immediately returning Law&Crime’s requests for comment.
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On Tuesday, KCSO officials and Crime Stoppers of Puget Sound came forward with the new surveillance footage showing Williams’ alleged killers outside her home just moments before the shooting.
Who murdered a mother of five in Kitsap County? Carolynn Williams was shot by two gunmen who fired into her home where her children were sleeping. Video shows the suspects. Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for an anonymous tip. Use the P3 Tips App or 1-800-222-TIPS. pic.twitter.com/04igtm16Uf
— David Rose (@DavidRoseFOX13) October 31, 2024
The suspects were also captured on video driving and parking a dark-colored, four-door sedan nearby in a clip released in March 2023. This new footage, however, is the first time police have released images of the suspects themselves walking up to the Williams house.
Inset: Dark-colored sedan driven by Carolynn Williams’ alleged killers (Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office). Background: Police watch surveillance footage showing suspects in the Carolynn Williams murder case (KCPQ).
“I think these are very violent individuals and I don’t think there is any reason to believe this was an isolated incident on their part,” Kitsap County Sheriff’s Detective Tim Flint told KCPQ this week.
“We think they are either from Kitsap or have strong local ties to the Kitsap area,” Flint said. “They knew where they were going and this was a targeted event. They had plans to shoot up this house and this was not a random act of violence.”
Anyone with information or tips on the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers or the sheriff’s office.
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