By: Richard L. Smith
A jury in Prince George County, Maryland, convicted a man for stabbing two Essex County, NJ little girls and his young sister in Clinton, Maryland.
According to Prince George County officials, Antonio Shareek Williams, who was 25 at the time of the murders, was charged with killing his sister, 6-year-old Nadiara Janae Withers, and two cousins: 6-year-old Ajayah Royale DeCree and 9-year-old Ariana Elizabeth DeCree both form Newark NJ in August of 2017.
The Maryland jury heard several recordings where Williams gave a full confession to the killings.
After more than five since the brutal and deadly encounter, the jury found Williams guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in the girls' deaths on Friday.
Police said back in 2017 that Williams' mother left him in their home on Brooke Jane Drive to watch over the girls while she went to work an overnight nursing shift.
When the mother returned home the following morning, she discovered the girls in their beds, suffering from stab wounds.
According to Maryland prosecutors, Williams got enraged when the three girls made noise and ran up and down the steps at the home.
Wiliams grabbed a knife from the kitchen, stabbed the girls in a downstairs bedroom, then put the knife away and pretended he didn’t know what happened, prosecutors said.
Ajayah and Ariana’s mother, Ms. Bathsheba Sumter, suddenly died in October 2017. At the time, her family told RLS Media that her death resulted from a ‘broken heart.’
Williams faces three life sentences without the possibility of parole.
His sentencing is scheduled for May.