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Police Find, Arrest Accused Murderer

1/9/2007
WXIA-TV ATLANTA
Reported By: Kevin Rowson

A Barrow County mother is in jail charged with the murder of her two children. Atlanta police found 26-year-old Felecia Williams early Tuesday morning, hiding in a southeast Atlanta apartment complex.

Barrow County investigators and the GBI had been looking for her since the murders last week.

Atlanta police picked up Williams at the Englewood Manor Apartments. They had been out to the complex twice looking for her. The second time they came out, a resident told them exactly where she was.

Now, she is back in Barrow County, where she will face charges of murdering her own children and assaulting her own father.

“We just glad that y’all found her, and that she was turned in, and that she didn’t hurt nobody else,” said the suspect’s sister, Tamara Williams.

The family can now move on through their grief, just one day after 9-year-old Elexis Hill and 5-year-old James Hill were buried.

Charles Barnes and his wife Annette raised the two children. Charles was a victim of the attack and a witness. His account to his family hurts so much, Tamara Williams says she can't even visit her sister in jail.

“Maybe later, after I start healing from all of this, but as of now, no, I will not be visiting her,” Tamara said.

No one would be visiting her in jail if it weren't for Batrone Dennis and his friend. He says he called police when he recognized Williams and saw her run into her friend’s apartment. Dennis says he steered police to a back room where Williams was hunkered behind a bed.

“So they went back there,” said Dennis. “The man says he touched on top of the head and that’s how they found her.”

At her parents home, where flowers and children’s stuffed animals from friends and strangers help the grieving process, Tamara Williams says she has crossed the biggest hurdle -- the question, why?

“With the drugs and all of that,” Tamara said. “I can say yeah, that definitely the devil played a big part in this.”

A day before the murders, a Barrow County judge ordered Felecia Williams to get treatment for a crack cocaine addiction. Investigators say Williams had no connections in Atlanta, but she was very adept at surviving on the streets.

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Police Search Continues for Mother

1/5/2007
WXIA-TV ATLANTA
Reported By: Kevin Rowson

A massive search continued Friday for a woman wanted for questioning about the murder of her own children.

On Wednesday night, police found 5-year-old James and 9-year-old Elexis Hill stabbed to death in side their home in the small town of Bethlehem in Barrow County.

That’s where they lived with their grandparents. Their grandfather was also attacked, but survived.

The children’s mother, Felicia Williams, is also known as Felicia Hill, because she is still married to the children’s father, James Hill -- despite being separated for about five years.

That is according to James Hill’s parents, who spoke to 11Alive News on Thursday. They say Williams has been in and out of jail most of her adult life, but even they could have never imagined what happened on Wednesday.

Willie and Patricia Hill speak proudly of their grandchildren, as would any grandparent.

“They were smart, intelligent, yes ma’am and no sir, and all of that,” said Willie Hill.

Patricia Hill agreed. “They were very sweet kids,” she said. “You wouldn't meet none like that -- they were one of a kind. Those were sweet babies.”

They speak of them in past tense because both children were stabbed to death inside the home in Bethlehem where they lived with their maternal grandparents, Charles and Annette Barnes.

Charles Barnes was home when it happened -- so was the children’s mother, 26-year-old Felicia Williams.

Williams is charged with assaulting her father, but not with the attack on the kids. Barrow County investigators and the GBI said they want to talk to her about it.

“We don’t know what happened in that house exactly right now, and she was there,” said Barrow County chief deputy Murray Kogod. “We are encouraging her to come speak with us.”

While investigators are walking a fine line trying not to indict Williams as a suspect, grandmother Patricia Hill doesn't hesitate to point the finger at her daughter-in-law.

“And I would like to ask the question why,” Patricia said. “Why did you hurt the babies? What did they do that was so bad that you had to do this to them? Turn yourself in. Please. Please turn yourself in. If you did this, turn yourself in. You won't go far.”

The grandfather, Charles Barnes, was treated at the scene. He refused to go to the hospital.

Barnes is the person investigators have been getting a lot of information from about the incident. But so far, no one can tell them where Williams is.

Williams’ family just wants Williams to stop running and turn herself in.

“Just please turn yourself in. You know, it is chaos with all these cameras and policeman everywhere, looking for you. We just want you to come home, we just want to get this resolved and see the end of this,” said Harold Burks, Jr., Williams’ brother.

Authorities said they had been getting a lot of good tips from the public and are asking people to continue calling and helping them out.