A freshman at LivingstoneCollege was arrested last week based on Florida warrants charging
him with attempted first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.When the incident occurred, Carlton Leon Williams, 24, was
on probation for a second-degree murder conviction out of Orange County, Fla., according
to Florida Department of Corrections records.
On March 22, Salisbury Police Detective Danny
Dyles, along with Orlando, Fla., police detectives, arrested Williams on the Livingstone
campus.
“This is still an ongoing investigation on
this end, and there isn’t much more that we can disclose,” an Orlando homicide
detective said after the arrest.
Salisbury Police officials said they are
unfamiliar with the Florida case.
Williams is being held at the Rowan County
Detention Center until Florida officials find a way for him to return. He waived his right
to an extradition hearing.
According to the Registrar’s Office at
Livingstone, Williams was a first-year freshman staying in Tucker Hall on the campus.
“We really don’t have much of a comment
on it at this point. It didn’t happen on our campus, and beyond him being a student,
we really don’t have anything to say about him,” Crystal Sadler,
Livingstone’s interim public relations director, said this morning.
Florida records show that Williams was convicted
of second-degree murder and attempted robbery with a firearm in December 1991.
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison but
released on July 19, 1998, and put on three years of probation.
“At the time our prisons were very
overcrowded, and he got 355 days credit for time served and gained time,” Jo Ellyn
Rackleff, public information officer of the Florida Department of Corrections, said.
Today's News