A jury indicted a former Atlanta officer Friday on accusations he helped a murder suspect he knew avoid arrest, The Fulton County District Attorney’s office said.
Tommy Williams, 26, was one of several officers attempting to arrest Jabari Mathis in May 2015 for a murder in southwest Atlanta, when officials say Williams allowed the suspect to escape out a window of a home and leave the scene.
Mathis was wanted in connection with the April 2015 slaying of 50-year-old Gary Allen Mincy, who was found shot to death inside his vehicle in the 1100 block of Joseph E. Boone Boulevard.
Williams was instructed to monitor one of the windows, but instead let Mathis escape. Officers caught Mathis a short time later and took him to jail on murder, assault and attempted robbery charges.
Mathis later told officers he knew Williams and that he just let him go and “ran right past him.”
Williams later resigned from his position. He had been with the Atlanta Police Department since October 2012. He faces obstruction, hindering apprehension of a criminal and violation of oath charges.
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