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Marietta woman indicted in gruesome death of brother-in-law

Shamona Price (Credit: Cobb County Sheriff's Office)
Shamona Price (Credit: Cobb County Sheriff's Office)
By Ellen Eldridge
June 26, 2017

A Marietta woman has been indicted on charges of murder and aggravated assault.

Police said 33-year-old Shamona Price killed her brother-in-law, Justin Williams, by pistol-whipping, strangling, stabbing and dropping a large television on his head.

Williams was found dead April 5 inside a duplex on Hammondton Road, Cobb police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said.

Price is also accused of stabbing the 27-year-old and strangling him with an electrical cord, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.

She remains in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center without bond.

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