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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Execution This Week For 1992 Shooting Spree

A Mobile County man is scheduled to be executed this week for a 1992 shooting spree.


Jessica Taloney
IRVINGTON, Alabama - A Mobile County man is scheduled to be executed this week for a shooting spree that happened 19 years ago.

Jason Oric Williams, 42, has been on death row since 1992 when he killed four people and wounded three others.

"It was just horrible," recalled Linda Wilson, who was the first person to call 911. "I cried for days. I can still cry over it," she said.

Williams, who claimed he was high on LSD, marijuana and crack cocaine, went on the shooting rampage around 6 a.m. on February 15, 1992, after staying out all night on a drinking and drug binge, according to court records.

Williams' first victim was Jeffery Carr, the 15 year old son of a couple who had taken in Williams after his wife kicked him out of their home. Carr, who survived the attack, was shot in the face and ran to Wilson's home for help.

"The blood was just shooting from him like a water hose," said Wilson. "My husband was putting towels and everything on Jeff's face trying to keep him awake."

Williams then turned his gun on Gerald Paravicini, shooting and killing him. He struck Clarie Paravicini in the face with the rifle and left the house.

The shooting spree didn't end there. Williams ran up the road to the home of Fred and Linda Barber. Williams shot Linda Barber in the head as she answered the door, then shot Fred as he sat a kitchen table where he had been drinking coffee. Williams also shot two of the Barbers' sons, killing one and wounding the other.

Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday at Atmore's Holman Prison.

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