Was Christopher Bonds intending to kill his friend, or was he protecting his family from a threat when he shot Byron “Cheese” Williams?
A 3rd District jury said Bonds was not acting in defense when he fired three rounds at his friend’s back. After deliberating for nearly 11 hours, the jurors rendered a guilty verdict just after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Bonds, 27, was accused of murder, a first-degree felony, in the 2016 death of the 25-year-old Williams. He was also charged with first-degree-felony discharge of a firearm that caused serious bodily injury, second-degree-felony possession of a firearm by a restricted person and three third-degree-felony counts of discharge of a firearm.