TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Bad social media behavior prompted an Alabama woman to create a fake Facebook account to monitor a niece that lived with her, 19-year-old Marissa Williams. AL.com reports that according to court documents, Williams' aunt had asked her to stop inviting men she met online over to her home, which led to Williams blocking her aunt on Facebook.
Williams' aunt then created an account for a fictional man she named "Tre 'Topdog' Ellis" and added Williams as a friend, hoping to regain the ability to surveil her niece. AL.com reports she hoped to use the moment as a lesson about online dangers, but what reportedly happened would have involved brutal violence in her own home.
Williams was charged on Tuesday for solicitation of murder. She's accused of unwittingly asking her aunt, who she thought was a man, to shoot her aunt, her aunt's fiance, her cousin and the family dog.
Marissa Williams' booking photo from the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office.
According to court documents, Williams had begun interacting with her aunt's fake Facebook account in May. She immediately provided her phone number and address and allegedly offered to have sex with the fictional man if he paid her cell phone bill.
Then things started getting more violent. Later Williams reportedly said she was angry and wanted to get out of Alabama and asked to be kidnapped, allegedly asking that her aunt be killed if she tried to stop the kidnapping. Then her plans escalated to the point where she's accused of plotting the murders.
She allegedly provided directions on how to get in her aunt's bedroom to shoot her aunt and fiance. She also asked to have her cousin and the family dog shot on the way out. Williams' plan was to pack her things in the fictional man's car while he murdered her family.
With that knowledge Williams' aunt went to the police and Williams was arrested by the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office. AL.com reports that she confessed to the plot, but said she didn't actually want it to go through. She's being held in the Tuscaloosa County Jail on a $30,000 bond.
Doris Casey
that little girl needs to be put away for good ,, or in an insane asylum, because her brain is fried.
DC
I agree Doris.
juicy
Wow she needs help
Mandi
This is so sad. It doesn’t matter if she wanted it to go through. If she plotted it and provided all of the information to make it happen, it could’ve easily happened if it wasn’t really her aunt. If she’s not locked up she will go after the aunt for turning her in. Crazy people in this world.
Ronald
I guess she’ll be scratched from auntie’s Christmas card list.
Squeaky Wheeler
That is really scary – and weird. Why would someone reach out to a FB account that presumably wasn’t well executed (only one or two friends because it was fake)? To solicit sex and murder from such a suspicious looking account is mind boggling. **to solicit murder under any circumstance is mind boggling; I cannot wrap my mind around the degeneracy of youth these days.
Ben
The girl should have been sent away for that hair don’t. That should be illegal.
helsey
I don’t think you can have a “touch” of Down Syndrome, but maybe you have personal experience with this, so I’ll take your word for it! O.M.G.
Duke of Omnium
This is the most terrible thing I’ve ever seen. Why would that horrible girl want the dog killed?