✝️ Shawnez Williams, age 46 – January 26 2019, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 🇺🇸💔
In 2000 a court found that the undisputed facts were that Shawnez and other women prisoners were forced by jail guards to engage in strip shows and exotic dancing in the D.C. jail while nude or wearing only G strings on at least three occasions in July, 1995. The dancing took place before numerous guards and 80 to 100 prisoners. Shawnez‘ uncontested testimony was that she participated in the dancing against her will out of fear of being attacked by guards if she refused. During the dancing, on at least one occasion, guards ordered one of the prisoners to place a cigarette in her vagina, which she did.
Shawnez was murdered by john Philip O. Ford. Ford, a registered sex offender, has a lengthy criminal history that includes attempted first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious assault of a minor and other sex crimes, kidnapping, armed burglary and robbery and drug possession. In 1991, he was arrested in Sanford on charges of attempted first-degree murder and sexual battery. The victim in the case refused to cooperate with investigators and Ford pleaded to a lesser charge of battery. In 1993, he was arrested again in Sanford in connection with two sexual batteries of a victim under 12. He was convicted of the capital batteries a year later. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison but served just 12, according to Department of Corrections records.
Ford was sentenced to life for the murders of Shawnez and Alexanderia Reshard.
