But He Has So Far Refuse To Disclose Who Hired Him, As He’s Charged And Sent To Court For Alleged Murder
PHOTO: Defendant Lawrence K. Williams (Left) remains tightlipped about who hired him
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
The man who ran into a crowd of Unity Party supporters killing three persons and seriously injuring nearly two dozen people who were celebrating the party’s presidential runoff election victory on the night of November 2o, 2023 did so deliberately and for financial gains, the Liberia National Police investigation has established.
Police in Monrovia have therefore, charged 31-year-old Lawrence K. William, a member of the ruling CDC party and sent him to court for murder. He is a member of the CDC militant brigade.
“That the above actions on the part of defendant Lawrence Williams leaves the investigation with the conviction that there was indeed a motive especially of monetary and psychological benefits, which he must have received from an unidentified source he has selected not to disclose, that led to defendant Lawrence executing said carnage on the innocent partisans and sympathizers who were jubilating on the night of November 20,” the Police charge sheet says.
Who hired him to carry out the act? How much money was given or promised? What was Williams’ personal motivation? are questions that the pending court trial is likely to shed light on.
Defendant Williams was arrested on November 21, a day after he ran into jubilant crowd of UP supporters and sympathizers while celebrating their victory at the UP headquarters on Broad Street in central Monrovia.
According to the police charge sheet defendant Williams actions intentionally cause the death of three victims to include Peter Gray, Mariama Kromah, and Varney Sulieman with at least 24 others in critical conditions at the JFK Medical Center in Monrovia’s Sinkor suburb.
According to the Police charge sheet, the CDC militant Williams deliberately drove an unmarked Gray Hyundai SUV with its headlights off and front passenger door opened.
The charge sheet says Defendant Williams without remorse drove through the crowd from Up town garage where he later stopped on Randall Street and he disembark the vehicle and boarded a motor bike that took him directly to his resident in Du-port.
Police have so far not been able to zero in on the person (s) who paid or made the promise to pay Williams for carrying out what is being referred to as a massacre. Earlier, UP officials described the action of Williams as “domestic terrorism”.
The police said that defendant Williams could not convince the investigation of the malfunction of the automatic gear of the vehicle which he claimed was the cause of the carnage.
The police quoted section 9.1 of the vehicle and traffic law which state ” in a case of accident involving death or serious bodily injuries the driver should immediately report him or herself to the nearest police station which defendant Lawrence failed to do.
Moreover, the Liberia National Police said that the action of defendant Williams was intentional and total indifference to the value of human lives.
At the same time, the police have charge defendant Lawrence Williams with the crime murder, aggravated assault, and recklessly endangering another person which is in violation of chapter 14, section 14.1 , 14.20 and 14.23 of the revise penal law of Liberia pending court trial as he spend his first night at the Monrovia central prison.
The alleged murderer claimed to be a pastor and a professional accountant and assistant manager of the miracon enterprise which includes other businesses in the GSA road community.
Police revealed that in the day days prior to the final pronouncemnet of the runoff presidential elections by NEC, defendant Lawrence K. Williams was regularly within the vicinity of the unity party headquarters, specifically around the Ducor community where he regularly visited a female colleague of the CDC identified as Pinky and one Solomon Q, Francis of the CDC.
“That on the afternoon of 20th November 2023, defendant Lawrence K. Williams who had inconsistently informed his fiancee name Miracle Cummings that he was called by his head pastor Apostle Patrice S. kenzcer that he had to deliver some printing material, left his fiancee and went to the Faith Liberation worship center situated opposite the Lott Carey mission School in Brewerville, where he went to transport some speaker,” says the Police charge sheet.
At a news conference held at the police headquarters in Monrovia on Tuesday, November 21, 2023, Police spokesperson, H. Moses Carter said that the LNP “has launched an investigation into a tragic accident that led 25 persons injured”.UP Supporters Election Victory Celebrations Turn Bloody By A Speeding Car: 3 Confirmed Dead, 22 Others Injured – News Public Trust
Meanwhile, defendant Lawrence K. Williams is now in the hands of the Monrovia City Court at the Temple of Justice.
Court writ