Crime & Safety
Lafayette Gas Station Attendant Returns to North Carolina to Face Murder Charge
Customers who know Marlon Williams - including Lafayette police officers who talked with him while he filled their cars - describe him as personable and engaging. No one suspected he was wanted for murder.
A North Carolina man wanted for the murder of his grandfather and the wounding of his step-grandmother four years ago has been returned to Lenoir County, North Carolina after he was tracked down and arrested while working at a gas station in Lafayette.
Thirty-seven-year-old Marlon Williams went before a Lenoir County magistrate this morning and was denied bond. He had been on the run since 2006, when he allegedly killed his grandfather and wounded his step-grandmother in a bizarre car-to-car shootout, and was living in Walnut Creek and working in Lafayette when police caught up to him in May.
Described as "personable and engaging," Williams was known to buy coffee for Lafayette police officers who visited his station to have their patrol cars serviced, talking to them for extended periods and apparently at ease with his proximity to officers.
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Police in North Carolina say the crime occurred September 26, 2006 in a church parking lot. Robert Bryant was killed in the shooting, while Mildred Bryant survived.
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