Affidavit: Man put gun to wife’s head, fired shot during assault in Jonesboro

Jonesboro, AR – (JonesboroRightNow.com) – A California man is being held in the Craighead County Detention Center on a $500,000 cash-only bond after police said he slammed his wife’s head into the ground and fired a handgun while she pushed it away from her.

On Oct. 4, Jonesboro police officers responded to an apartment complex on South Caraway Road following a report of shots fired.

According to an affidavit, officers met with the victim, who said her husband, 48-year-old Sylvester Donell Williams, of Long Beach, CA, had assaulted her with a handgun. The victim said she came home from work to find Williams drunk, then he accused her of cheating…

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