Derrick E. Williams was 55 when he was found dead inside a home on the 3600 block of Nebraska Avenue in the Gravois Park neighborhood of St. Louis on the morning of May 31, 2018. Police treated his death as a homicide from the start and recovered a weapon at the scene.

Investigators focused on a close family friend identified as Anton Lee Williams after police said he learned an allegation that Derrick had molested a 3-year-old relative. Authorities reported a chain of calls and a confrontation that ended in gunfire; a child in the home reportedly pointed to the recovered weapon and identified it as belonging to his father, a detail police said helped link the suspect to the shooting.

Within days Anton Lee Williams was in custody and charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. Bond was set at $800,000 cash-only as detectives continued to examine statements and physical evidence. Additional widely accessible reporting about later court outcomes was not noted in contemporaneous coverage.

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