The Orange County Sheriff’s Department released a critical incident video Tuesday of a deputy shooting in Lake Forest of a 24-year-old man accused of stabbing two of his sisters, killing one.
On Aug. 20, deputies responded to multiple reports of a stabbing at an apartment complex in the 2100 block of Osterman Road. The video features two recorded calls to dispatch, one from a female neighbor who heard one of the sisters screaming for help and an Amazon delivery driver who witnessed the male suspect stab the woman and provided his description to authorities.
During the 911 call, the neighbor told dispatch she saw the woman being chased by a male suspect before she collapsed on the stairway in front of her apartment. The woman then disappeared out of her neighbor’s line of sight.
“He looked really disheveled. I mean, there was blood all over him and blood all over her,” the male delivery driver said. He told dispatch he saw the suspect run behind a building in the apartment complex after stabbing the woman. He described him as a darker-skinned man in a white shirt and shorts covered in blood.
Dispatch told deputies and county fire personnel the woman was in the parking lot after she received multiple stab wounds in the neck and abdomen.
Upon arriving at the scene, deputies provided medical treatment to the victim while additional deputies evacuated nearby apartments and positioned themselves outside the suspect’s apartment, Sgt. Mike Woodroof said in the video.
Shortly after, the victim’s mother arrived and told deputies her other daughter was still inside the apartment and provided a key to get inside. Body camera footage shows four deputies and a K-9 outside the suspect’s apartment.
“We’re forcing entry inside the (residence), there’s another subject inside, we have K-9, less lethal and assault rifle,” a deputy told dispatch.
The deputies announced themselves and proceeded to open the apartment door. Upon opening, video footage shows the suspect standing at the end of a hallway with a knife in his right hand. Multiple deputies can be heard yelling, “Drop the knife, drop it,” seconds before one deputy fired shots in the suspect’s direction.
One deputy alerted dispatch that shots were fired. Another deputy could be heard comforting the K-9 before telling his partner to secure the suspect. Authorities entered the apartment and yelled, “Hands, let me see your hands,” before the bodycam footage cut out.
Deputies later located another victim, 22-year-old Nadia Majid Williams, with multiple stab wounds inside a bathroom in the apartment. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her brother, Ahmed Majid Williams, was handcuffed and provided life-saving measures by deputies and fire personnel before he was hospitalized and then transported to the Orange County Jail on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, Woodroof said.
