Ronald Leonard Williams, a 54-year-old Black man, was reported missing from Gwinnett County, Georgia, on November 28, 2021, after he failed to return from borrowing a cousin’s car. Multiple agencies—including the Gwinnett County Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation—tracked his phone and vehicle into Paulding County before the vehicle was found on December 3, 2021, at an apartment complex in Smyrna, Cobb County. Investigators found signs of a violent assault inside the car.

Investigators focused on an associate, 44-year-old Wesley Richard Brock. On December 8, 2021, after executing a search warrant at Brock’s Dallas, Georgia, residence, detectives say Brock confessed to shooting and killing Williams and led them to a rural area in northern Paulding County near Williams Road, where the Paulding County coroner pronounced Williams deceased. Brock was arrested and charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, concealing the death of another person, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. He was held without bond.

Are there details about Williams’s last movements or associates that anyone in the area can add?