On March 11, 2022, PCSO Homicide detectives charged 30-year-old David Jesse Williams of Auburndale via warrant with first degree murder and other charges for murdering an 81-year-old Auburndale man who had been reported missing to the Auburndale Police Department. Williams was taken into custody in Georgia, where he fled after committing the…
Law enforcement agencies in Florida and Georgia helped arrest a man suspected of murdering an elderly Auburndale resident, burying him in a shallow grave, and then fleeing to Georgia in the victim's truck.