Accused police-killer John D. Williams received a black eye during his arrest Saturday afternoon, police said, amid controversy over a photo authorities took that shows the suspect pinned on the ground and a recent jail booking image more clearly showing the facial injury. The controversial capture photo, taken moments after a team of seven officers […]

AUGUSTA — Suspected police-killer John D. Williams, in his initial court appearance this afternoon at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta, was ordered held without bail and his case will be handled in Cumberland County. Williams is charged with intentional or knowing murder in the death of Cpl. Eugene Cole of the Somerset County Sheriff’s […]

Authorities on Friday again implored suspected police-killer John Williams to surrender peacefully, with the county sheriff saying they’ve learned that he may want to communicate with police. “We will do anything to resolve this situation peacefully,” Sheriff Dale Lancaster said during a Friday morning press conference,. “It has come to our attention during this investigation […]

Aside from arrest records and a handful of Facebook posts, John Williams left few clues as to who he was outside of the man suspected of shooting and killing Somerset County Sheriff’s Officer Cpl. Eugene Cole. A member of the Skowhegan Area High School class of 2007, Williams did not graduate with his class and […]