Woman Indicted in Stabbing Death of Boyfriend

June 10, 2022 – A Frayser woman was indicted Thursday in the April death of her boyfriend whose body was found outside her apartment with a large stab wound to the chest, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Shaquita Williams, 39, was indicted on a count of second-degree murder and is being held on $250,000 bond.

Police were called to the Ridgecrest Apartments in Frayser shortly after 11 a.m. on April 3 of this year when they found the body of 52-year-old Derwin White in the doorway of Williams’s apartment on Leafy Hollow Drive.

He had deep cuts to his chest and to his left hand. White was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

After initially denying any involvement, Williams told police she and White had argued and that she pointed a folding knife at him and said, “Don’t play with me. I’m not going to play with you.”

She then stabbed White in the chest and in the left hand, and hid the knife atop the kitchen cabinet.

The case is being prosecuted by Chief Prosecutor Greg Gilbert of the District Attorney’s Domestic Violence Unit (DVU) that handles cases of domestic assault and homicide committed by intimate partners.

The DVU works closely with the Shelby County Family Safety Center as well as with numerous other victim-service providers, such as Kindred Place and the YWCA, to help victims and families experiencing interpersonal violence.