Employee Indicted in Workplace Shooting

Oct. 28, 2021 – A 28-year-old construction worker has been indicted on first-degree murder charges stemming from the shooting of his team leader last year at a Cordova worksite, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

    Defendant Marcus D. Williams also was indicted as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm involving a crime of violence. He is being held in the Shelby County Jail.

    Shelby County Sheriff’s Office investigators said the shooting occurred around 9 a.m. on Sept. 18, 2020, at a construction site in the 1600 block of Appling Road.

   Witnesses said Williams got into an argument with his supervisor, William L. Scott, 38, in an unfinished garage on the site that was used as a break room. Williams left the site and returned a short time later with a handgun equipped with an extended clip.

    When Scott told him he could not have a gun at the work site, Williams began shooting at him. Witnesses said Scott was hit as he tried to run for safety and that Williams continued to shoot at him after he collapsed.

    Scott, who was struck multiple times in the legs and the head, was pronounced dead at the scene. Williams drove away, but was arrested without incident a short time later at his Raleigh-area home.

   The case is being handled by Chief Prosecutor Stephanie Johnson of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 2 which handles cases in General Sessions Division 9 and in Criminal Court Division 2.