Killer Who Stabbed 3 Girls Receives Multiple Life Prison Sentences

UPPER MARLBORO, MD — A Clinton man who stabbed his 6-year-old sister and two young cousins to death in 2017 was sentenced Friday to six life sentences without parole.

Antonio Williams, 30, was found guilty in January by a Prince George's County jury for the first-degree murders of the three girls. He was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree child abuse resulting in death.

On Aug. 18, 2017, about 7:30 a.m., Williams' mother came home from working her nursing shift and found her daughter and two visiting female cousins brutally stabbed and unresponsive in a basement bedroom, prosecutors said.

Williams' sister, Nadira Janae’ Withers, 6, and visiting cousins Ariana Elizabeth DeCree, 9, and Ajayah Royale DeCree, 6, had been left in Williams’ care. He later confessed to taking a knife from the kitchen and going to the downstairs bedroom where the girls were sleeping.

After killing all three children, he cleaned the knife and put it back in the kitchen and washed the clothes he was wearing, according to the Office of the State’s Attorney in Prince George’s County.

“Today was a culmination of years of hard work to get justice for these three beautiful little girls,” said State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said after today’s sentencing. “We are confident Mr. Williams will not return to our community. We are also confident that our office put in everything to ensure justice happened. And we are confident that the family through their grief can now move forward to continue to heal through this tragedy.”