MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Frayser woman was indicted Thursday in the April death of her boyfriend whose body was found outside her apartment with a large stab wound to the chest, the Shelby County District Attorney's Office said Friday.
39-year-old Shaquita Williams was indicted on a count of second-degree murder.
Police were called to the Ridgecrest Apartments in Frayser shortly after 11 a.m. on April 3 when they found the body of 52-year-old Derwin White in the doorway of Williams’s apartment on Leafy Hollow Drive.
He had deep cuts to his chest and to his left hand. White was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
After initially denying any involvement, Williams told police she and White had argued and that she pointed a folding knife at him and said, “Don’t play with me. I’m not going to play with you.”
She then stabbed White in the chest and in the left hand, and hid the knife atop the kitchen cabinet.
Williams is currently being held in the Shelby County Jail on $250,000 bond.
