Ronald A. Williams II

Infobox police officer
name = Ronald Austin Williams II


caption = Officer Ronald A. Williams II
born = birth date|1969|6|8
died = death date and age|1995|3|4|1969|6|8
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placeofbirth = - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
placeofdeath =
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department = New Orleans Police Department
service = United States
serviceyears = 1992 - 1995
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awards =
relations = Married, 2 children
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Ronald Austin Williams II born June 8, 1969 in New Orleans, Louisiana, a New Orleans Police Officer, was mortally wounded along with two employees of a family-run Vietnamese restaurant during an armed robbery attempt on March 4, 1995. The shooter was a fellow New Orleans police officer, Antoinette Frank.

Death

Officer Williams was in uniform while working night detail at the Kim Anh restaurant in New Orleans East when fellow officer, 25 year-old Antoinette Frank, and 18 year-old Rogers LaCaze entered the closed restaurant in the early hours of March 4, 1995. The Kim Anh restaurant, was owned and operated by the Vu family. Four siblings were working that night: Ha, Chau, Quoc and Cuong. Twenty-five year-old Williams was shot and killed immediately. Twenty-five year-old Ha and her 17 year-old brother, Cuong, were shot and killed when they could not reveal where sister, Chau, hid the day's receipts. Chau, Quoc, and another employee witnessed the crime while hiding in a large walk-in cooler in the restaurant. Frank and LaCaze were charged with first-degree murder, subsequently found guilty and sentenced to death.

Family

Ronald A. Williams II was raised in New Orleans and graduated from Brother Martin High School in 1987. After high school, Williams married Mary A. Buras, his high school sweetheart, whose family lived across the street from the Williams' home. Ronnie and Mary's first son, Christopher, was born 1989. Williams joined the New Orleans Police Department in 1992 and began working night detail at the Kim Anh restaurant to supplement his policeman's salary. The restaurant was located on Bullard Boulevard in New Orleans East not far from the Williams' and Buras' family homes. Ronnie and Mary had a second son, Patrick on February 1995, a week prior to the murders. Officer Williams was interred in Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery on March 7, 1995. His name was inscribed on the Memorial Wall at The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington D.C. during National Police Week the following year.

ee also

* Antoinette Frank
* ""Killer with a Badge""

ources

*cite news
first=Harmes, Joseph
last=Sanz, Cynthia
title=Crime
work=People Weekly
date=1995-10-02
accessdate=1995-10-02
*cite news
first=Lynn
last=Jensen
title=Grim Milstone
work=New Orleans Times-Picayune
date=2005-03-04
accessdate=2005-03-04