The Predator Behind the Prowler: Serial Rapist Gets 327 Months
The reign of terror is over. Deandre Martece Williams, a man who a federal judge said displayed a “breathtaking” and “utter disregard for human dignity,” has been sentenced to 327 months in prison for a brutal series of armed robberies, non-fatal shootings, and rapes that gripped the city of Detroit in 2023.
United States District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith delivered the sentence after detailing Williams’s “nightmarish” conduct.
Over a three-month period, Williams victimized 15 people in eight separate incidents, seriously injuring four and raping three at gunpoint. His predatory pattern, which often targeted sex workers and their customers, involved approaching victims in parked cars, holding them at gunpoint, and then shooting at them as they tried to escape…