Accused Kaufman DA Killer Eric Williams Had an Incredible Arsenal

Charlie

I will be boycotting "Exodus" due to the unrelenting autoplay ads. Seriously its impossible to read your articles when the screen is covered by Christian Bale prancing around Egypt

laygo3

Track an "upper"? Anyone can walk into a store & buy an upper without a background check. That's because the LOWER is what is tracked & considered the 'firearm' in an AR type setup & requires an FFL w/a background check. It's what has the serial/caliber/manufacturer inscribed on it.

roo_ster

"Incredible Arsenal"

Stephen Young is easily impressed.

ozonelarryb topcommenter

Every story has to be hyperbolic. Incredible, biggest, baddest. .... where are all the skinheads that were hyped for weeks?

Just let it happen, without the overplay.

everlastingphelps topcommenter

That's not an "incredible arsenal." That's an AR-15 (and only one as near as I can tell) and a bunch of magazines. Oh, and a couple of ridiculous "improvised explosives" that appear to be a jug of smokeless powder with a dog toy attached. My guess is that the plan is to soak the tennis ball in some sort of accelerant, and light it on fire in HOPES that it eventually sets off the powder.

FWIW, I'm glad this guy was a moron who couldn't put together a decent explosive. He's using the wrong powder, there's nothing to tamp the charge, his detonator is ridiculous, etc etc. Someone who had even spent a few years as a misguided teenager making pipebombs could outdo this clown. He's Just Another Murderer, not some sort of survivalist mastermind.

wcvemail topcommenter

First! and first to say that's the first time I've seen such clear, apparently evidence-compliant images of stuff. I wonder if those images are displayed in the courtroom and entered as evidence themselves? I wonder what the tech specs are on the imaging and display systems.

devildog943

@laygo3 You are correct, an upper is not serialized, not controlled or 'tracked'. But, if one is doing ballistics tracing, the upper (specifically the barrel and bolt) would certainly leave unique marks on the bullets and cartridge casings.

I 'think' this is what they meant about being tracked. But I could be wrong...

everlastingphelps topcommenter

@laygo3 Right, but I think he was worried about ballistics, and it's the tooling in the chamber and the barrel that would match up to the murder slugs, so he would need to get rid of the upper.

TexMarine

@laygo3 stop using facts, this is the DO, no use for your "facts" here.

TexMarine

@roo_ster or an incredible pussy.

TexMarine

@ozonelarryb I've noticed a decline in their ability to even be somewhat close with their headlines. You should see the revolt that's happening on the DO's Facebook when they do this shit.

leftocenter

It sounds like the writer isn't from around here...

It's not an incredible arsenal, it's just an average arsenal. It does say "41 firearms". If you laid them all end to end they would reach the length of 41 firearms!

Only in Texas, as they say, and by that I mean my sons blew up some things in the yard as teenagers, and even their libtard mom said "ok, just this once"

This guy is an anomoly, not a Texan.

anthony..

@everlastingphelps

"They found at least 30 firearms, a crossbow, police-issued tactical gear, a “sheriff” patch that fits over a bullet-proof vest and a white Crown Vic, testified FBI Special Agent Dianna Strain."

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2014/12/testimony-resumes-in-kaufman-county-da-murder-trial.html/

BenS.

@everlastingphelps

Not an AR15. That's an AR Five Seven based on the P90. Shoots the 5.7 round, same caliber the Fort Hood Shooter used. Hard for me to make out the roll mark on the lower but the upper is a Five Seven, not an AR15.

I can't tell from the photos if the upper was threaded for a can or not.

Interesting.......

ScottsMerkin topcommenter

@everlastingphelps my friend has a gun safe with far more guns than this guy had in a storage unit....

holmantx topcommenter

@everlastingphelps

Had he hired a pro from out of state or from Mexico, it would have been difficult to catch this moron.

everlastingphelps topcommenter

@wcvemail Don't know about the imaging, but the display is running at 1080i (It's right there on the screen) so it isn't especially impressive. Most of the time, they have a document camera and a DVD player. We usually just show images straight off the computer with something like Trial Director.

laygo3

@devildog943 @everlastingphelps ah, ballistics, makes sense. Wasn't thinking of it like that, but then, you could just really fubar the barrel with something to make it either unusable or change the pattern.

buckbucky

@TexMarine @roo_ster An easily impressed incredible pussy

buckbucky

@TexMarine @ozonelarryb Must be why they stopped including the FB comments in the website feed

anthony..

@everlastingphelps

In addition to the Crown Victoria, authorities recovered 41 firearms from the storage unit, "including eight .223 caliber weapons, two .38 caliber handguns and one .357 caliber handgun, two .223 'lowers' with no 'uppers,'" and "ammunition consistent with that used during the Hasse ... and McLelland murders."

http://www.kltv.com/story/22939868/eric-williams-to-face-death-penalty-in-kaufman-co-murder-case

everlastingphelps topcommenter

@BenS. @everlastingphelps Bleh. He went from poodle shooter to extra-poodle? Definitely not a criminal mastermind. Played too much Call of Duty.

ColonelAngus

@ScottsMerkin @everlastingphelps Your "friend"? We saw what you did there.

everlastingphelps topcommenter

@holmantx @everlastingphelps Yeah, but this wasn't business, this was personal. He wanted to do it himself.

wcvemail topcommenter

@everlastingphelps @wcvemail

Thanks v. much. It impressed me, apparently I haven't spent much time in courtrooms. My imaging expertise stagnated seven years ago when I last consulted for Polycom, and I haven't kept up with the working apps since then.

ScottsMerkin topcommenter

@buckbucky no they quit posting FB comments in this feed, because we bitched about it being here, it never posted in any order, it ruined the flow of conversation here, and FB commenters are the worst.

holmantx topcommenter

@everlastingphelps @holmantx

He is the kind of personality to grab a bailiff's weapon and eat a bullet.

everlastingphelps topcommenter

@wcvemail @everlastingphelps Yeah, I think that what we are seeing there is some sort of reporter feed, because all the OSD wouldn't normally be on for a jury.

If you are equipped for jargon, if the courtroom is set up by the courthouse, they usually have a switching and distribution hub (extron or similar) that takes in a document camera (like an Elmo), a DVD player, and several VGA inputs running at 1024x768. XGA(60htz) is the gold standard, because it is Good Enough for most anything, and most anything can handle it. (I expect things to go in the direction of HDMI/1080p sooner than later, but these are government purchases so they tend to be WAY behind the curve.)

If the attys are running it themselves, they usually stick to the document camera, but it isn't that unusual for them to have something like TrialDirector, although for that they could just as easily be using a plain-jane image viewer. If they have a dedicated multimedia consultant, they are almost certainly using something like TrialDirector or Sanction.

So all of that goes into the switching, and then is distributed out to screens for the witness, the judge, and both counsel tables. Usually the jury either has multiple small monitors right in front of them, or a big projector screen that they can all see.

If the courtroom isn't set up for multimedia, then you hire a multimedia vendor to come and set all that up.

wcvemail topcommenter

@everlastingphelps @wcvemail

And they said this thing was only good for libtard/republitard arguments.

I'm very appreciative of your time and sharing, esp. the concise, end-to-end tech overview.