The Brief
- A Cherokee County jury found 48-year-old Kelvin Demond Williams guilty of murdering his wife and attempting to murder her teenage son.
- The July 2025 shooting was captured on in-home security video and showed Williams firing at the boy before fatally shooting Tenisha Williams.
- Superior Court Judge Shannon Wallace sentenced the Woodstock man to life without parole plus 100 years and 12 months.
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. – A Cherokee County man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a jury convicted him for the brutal 2025 murder of his wife and the attempted murder of her 16-year-old son.
Woodstock man sentenced for kitchen execution
What we know:
The Cherokee Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Daventry Crossing at approximately 10:40 p.m. on July 13, 2025. A 16-year-old boy called 911 while hiding in his bedroom, reporting that his stepfather had shot at him and his mother. When deputies arrived, they found Kelvin Demond Williams standing in the doorway of the garage smoking a cigarette.
Inside the home, authorities found Tenisha Williams, 48, dead on the kitchen floor. A four-year-old child was found unharmed, asleep in another bedroom. Investigators recovered the murder weapon on the kitchen island where Williams had been standing.…