Ronald A. Williams II

Ronald Austin Williams II

Officer Ronald A. Williams II
Born June 8, 1969
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Died March 4, 1995 (aged 25)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Relatives Married, 2 children

Police career

Department New Orleans Police Department
Badge number 1474[1]
Country United States
Years of service 1992 - 1995

Ronald Austin Williams II (June 8, 1969 - March 4, 1995) was a New Orleans Police Officer who was mortally wounded along with two employees of a family-run Vietnamese restaurant during an armed robbery attempt on March 4, 1995. The shooters were a fellow New Orleans police officer, Antoinette Frank and her accomplice, Rogers Lacaze.

Death

Officer Williams was in uniform while working night detail at the Kim Anh restaurant in New Orleans East when fellow officer, 23-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.

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References

  1. ↑ "Officer Down Memorial Page - Officer Ronald A. Williams II". Retrieved 2009-01-01.

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