(Photo: St. Louis County Missouri)
The man in the photo above, 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams, is the person Missouri police have arrested and charged with the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri. John Bacon, writing for USA Today, tells us that
Williams admitted firing the shots but said he was shooting at someone else.Read more here.
Williams has had several minor run-ins with police and one felony arrest in St. Louis, court records show.
He spent two days in jail last March for failing to appear for court hearings for traffic infractions, including driving without a valid license and operating a motor vehicle without maintaining proper insurance. He also spent two days in jail in January 2014 for speeding.
Police arrested Williams in June 2013 for receiving stolen property, a felony, and credit card fraud. He was sentenced in March 2014 to two years probation.
Bishop Derrick Robinson of the Kingdom Destiny Fellowship International, who has been an organizer of Ferguson protests, later told CNN he spoke with Williams -- and that Williams said he was not involved in protests. He said Williams told him the shooting occurred after he had been robbed by an unknown assailant.
The officers were shot during a protest just after midnight Thursday. One was shot in the face, the other in the shoulder. They were released from the hospital later Thursday.
Thanks to Instapundit
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