Bipolar Man Hit Mom with Hammer, Threatened Murder-Suicide in Woodbury: Charges

A 22-year-old man who suffers from a bipolar disorder was charged with several felonies after police claim he beat his mother in the head with a hammer and held his parents at gunpoint Saturday evening in Woodbury. Police say David Edward Williams Jr. threatened murder-suicide during the incident before he surrendered after a three-hour-long negotiation with a SWAT team.

Williams was charged with assault with a firearm, kidnapping to commit bodily harm and terroristic threats with reckless disregard, the Woodbury Bulletin reported:

Williams made a list of all the people who were involved in putting him on medications and began to exact revenge against his mother, according to the court complaint.

Last summer, he moved out of his parents’ house at 1032 Briar Glen Lane, stopped taking his medication, and started using drugs and alcohol.

When he went to his parents’ house Saturday evening, he took away their phones, and while holding a hammer told his mother he was going to hurt her, the complaint read.

Williams blocked her exit with a recliner and began “relentlessly” beating her in the head with the hammer, his mother told police. She didn’t know how many times she was hit.

Read much more at the Woodbury Bulletin

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