The officers enter the home, guns drawn, and find James Williams on the floor. Marquetta Williams told officers that her husband has been shot and he was bleeding in the living room.īullets holes in and enclosed wooden security fence where James Williams, 46, of Canton who had been shooting celebratory gunfire into the air to ring in 2022 was shot to death by a Canton Police officer firing through the family's enclosed wooden security fence. The four-minute body camera video ends after more officers arrived on scene and the family is ordered out of their home. "He didn't deserve to die like this, at all," his daughter, Ja'Lia Williams said at a candlelight vigil on Wednesday night. Then she saw a splatter of blood across his chest. His wife said the officer did not announce his presence before firing his gun, and she didn't know her husband had been shot until he turned to come inside. The footage showed Williams fired far more shots. She said her husband fired four shots in the air and turned to follow her inside. Marquetta Williams recounts the events surrounding the death of her husband, James Williams, 46, who had been shooting celebratory gunfire into the air to ring in 2022 was shot to death by a Canton Police officer firing through the family's enclosed wooden security fence.
The officer backs into the street and yells into his radio, "CanCom! Shots fired. Then louder, he yells: "Police! Get down now! Police! Get down now!"
The officer yells, "Shots fired! Shots fired!" The officer returns to the fence and draws his service weapon. Nearly 30 shots fired in rapid succession. Moments later, dozens of shots were fired from behind the fence on the side of the house. The officer went up to the porch and saw the man put away a rifle. He saw a man's head - later identified as Williams - behind a 6-foot high wooden fence. The officer radioed his location outside the 10th Street home and said he heard shots fired. Police haven't commented beyond the initial statement but body camera footage released Wednesday shed more light into what happened. Photos of the family of James Williams, 46, who had been shooting celebratory gunfire into the air to ring in 2022 when was shot him to death by a Canton police officer.