Antonio Williams, 19, was found with a gunshot wound to the neck in the parking lot of the Lakeview at Palm Harbor apartments on Country Place Lane just before 6 a.m. on July 18, 2025. A resident heard a single shot and discovered him; he was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead later that morning. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office identified him and notified his family.

Investigators say Williams had been inside an apartment with friends when an altercation broke out. Sawyer fled initially but was located and arrested; he was booked on a charge of first-degree murder.

The shooting left neighbors waking to police tape and floodlights and a single casing marking the scene. Did anyone in the area see or hear anything around that early-morning hour that could help clarify what led to the altercation?