Deputies arrested Assistant U.S. Attorney Francis Williams’ ex-wife Saturday after she reportedly shot him in the arm.
At about 5 p.m. Friday, Alexis Touchton Williams, 39, shot her ex-husband in the arm after he went to her Gainesville home to pick up their 5-year-old daughter, according to an Alachua County Sheriff’s report.
Williams told police he went to the house to pick up his daughter as part of a custody agreement and to give his ex-wife some property paperwork.
He waited on the porch for his daughter as Touchton Williams crouched and pointed a black semi-automatic pistol at his chest. He told police he realized, “she was going to kill me,” according to the police report. He jumped and turned before Touchton Williams shot him in the arm, according to the police report.
Touchton Williams later told police she didn’t want her daughter going with Williams because she believed he was intoxicated. She said he threatened to kill her first, and she shot him because she said she was scared, according to the police report.
Following an interview with Williams, deputies arrested and charged her with attempted murder. She was taken to the Alachua County Jail, where she remained as of press time in lieu of a $200,000 bond.
[A version of this story ran on page 8 on 2/9/2015 under the headline “Assistant U.S. Attorney shot"]
