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Police release video of deadly robbery
By JACOB H. FRIES
Published October 4, 2006
CLEARWATER — Hoping to generate new leads, police Wednesday released chilling images from surveillance video of a robbery last month in which a 64-year-old unarmed hotel security guard was shot to death. So far, detectives have made no arrests in the Sept. 22 robbery and slaying of William T. Williams at the Fairfield Inn & Suites.
The video can be seen at www.clearwaterpolice.org/news/hotelrobbery.htm , includes images shot from two cameras and runs about 100 seconds. It does not show the shooting, which occurred out of view of the cameras, police said.
Instead, the tape shows the robber entering the 3070 Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard hotel lobby at about 5:30 a.m., brandishing a handgun.
On the video, the gunman initially confronts a front desk clerk and dashes out of camera range where police said he approached a hotel housekeeper, who locked herself in another room. He returns to the front desk and drops a white bag on the counter, where the clerk takes in and begins filling it.
The robber is described as a white man believed to be in his 20s or 30s, 6 feet tall and weighing around 200 pounds. He was wearing dark clothes — including a long-sleeve T-shirt — a dark baseball cap with a light-colored emblem, and light-colored hockey mask similar to the unadorned white full-face mask worn by the character Jason in the movie “Friday the 13th.”
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the Police Department’s Major Case Line at (727) 562-4422.
[Last modified October 4, 2006, 10:40:25]
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