Octavius Williams will get a chance to clear his name in a 2010 shooting that he has long maintained he didn’t commit.
Octavius Williams will get a chance to clear his name of attempted murder and other charges in a 2010 shooting that he has long maintained he didn’t commit.CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Ohio Supreme Court this week chose not to review the case of a man whose 2011 conviction was overturned after he spent eight years in prison for a shooting that his brother confessed to committing.
Williams was 17 when Dennis Cole was shot in the head during a chaotic gunfight at a Halloween party in 2010. Ricky Williams provided a written confession to an investigator with the state public defender’s office in 2015. Two years later, he admitted to the shooting in an interview with the prosecutor’s office. In both cases, Ricky Williams said the shooting was in self-defense and that Cole attacked him.
The new trial hearing also saw Larry Johnson testify. He was another man shot in the melee and is related to Cole. He testified that he knew Ricky Williams had shot Cole and that he tried to convince Cole before a hearing in juvenile court to “do the right thing” and not send the wrong person to jail.
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