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WILLIAMS RETURNED TO TYLER ENTERS COURT: Johnny Lee Williams is led into the 114th District Court at the Smith County Courthouse for his arraignment Thursday afternoon on a charge of aggravated kidnapping in the Megan LeAnn Holden case. By: CASEY KNAUPP, Staff Writer February 03, 2005 ENTERS COURT: Johnny Lee Williams is led into the 114th District Court at the Smith County Courthouse for his arraignment Thursday afternoon on a charge of aggravated kidnapping in the Megan LeAnn Holden case. (Staff Photo By David Branch) The man accused of abducting and murdering a 19-year-old college student was flown Thursday to...

LIGHT OF FAMILY'S LIFE LOVE ONES GATHER TO REMEMBER By KENNETH DEAN, Staff Writer January 29, 2005 An outpouring of love and support was evident Saturday afternoon as more than 1,000 people paid their respects to a young woman whose life was cut short after she was abducted from a Tyler retail store earlier this month and shot dead. Megan LeAnn Holden, 19, of Chandler, was described as a vibrant person who cared about others more than herself and a woman whose smile brightened many lives. THE ABDUCTION Ms. Holden was abducted from the Wal-Mart at Texas Highway 64 west...

WILLIAMS WAIVES EXTRADITION Johnny Lee Williams From Staff, Wire Reports January 28, 2005 BISBEE, Ariz. - The man suspected in the kidnapping and slaying of a Texas college student waived extradition Friday, authorities said. That clears the way for Johnny Lee Williams, 24, to return to Tyler, where he faces kidnapping and first-degree homicide charges in the death of Megan Leann Holden, 19. Ms. Holden was kidnapped on Jan. 19 in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart store in Tyler where she had worked the night shift, according to authorities. Videotape from a surveillance camera showed a man forcing Ms....

ANTICIPATED REPORT When I heard that the kidnapper and murderer of the young girl abducted from the Wal-Mart parking lot was a disturbed veteran of the war in Iraq I began to watch the media even more closely ... waiting for something. What I am waiting to see is who will be first to produce an in-depth report on the sordid affair. Perhaps it will be the New York Times or Washington Post or "60 Minutes." If such a report is brought forth, I predict that in examining the murderer's past it will be determined that the difficult circumstances of...

Megan Holden's Funeral, Burial Set Funeral services for Megan Holden have now been arranged. She's the 19-year-old Wal-Mart cashier who was allegedly abducted and killed by Johnny Lee Williams, Jr., 24, of Tyler. It's scheduled for this Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Green Acres Baptist Church chapel in Tyler. A burial will follow at the New Salem Cemetery near Henderson in Rusk County. The Lloyd James Funeral Home says the public is invited.

1/25/05-Cochise County, AZ Governor's Warrant Needed To Bring Johnny Williams Back Johnny Lee Williams, Jr. is still not talking to authorities and is delaying his extradition process to bring him back to Smith County to face charges. An extradition hearing was held today for Williams in Cochise County, AZ. Williams has been in jail there since Friday, when he was arrested at a hospital, after getting treatment for a gunshot wound. Police believe it was Williams on the West Tyler Wal-Mart surveillance tape, shown kidnapping Megan Holden, 19. Megan's body was later found in West Texas. Williams fought extradition today,...

Did anyone see Dan Abrams' report last night? I got in on the last of it but it seems the Williams family has been on "morning news shows" talking about their son, Johnny Williams Jr., suspect in the murder/abduction of Megan Holden from a Tyler, Texas Wal-Mart parking lot. Several attorneys and some military vets were discussing the implications of PTSD. One question being tossed around was whether or not it would be wise to have any vets on the jury when Williams is tried. Having shopped at another Wal-Mart in Tyler on Sunday night of this week, I talked...

The man being credited with stopping the accused kidnapper is no stranger to danger. He moved to Bowie after retiring from the New York City Fire Department where he was one of the first people into the World Trade Center after terrorists first attempted to topple the towers in 1993. He says, "I just drew and fired." His one shot went thru 24-year-old Johnny Williams's shoulder and through the cinder block of the building. Ritchie doesn't want his last name known. He says the suspect walked into the Mountain View RV Park in Bowie at 5:45 a.m. and told him this...

Just off the Internet the Sunday edition of the Tyler Morning Telegraph reports that the murder suspect refuses to talk to authorities. Residing in Tyler, I can say a little about the area this new Wal-Mart SuperCenter is located in ... at the SW corner of Loop 323 and Hwy 64East ... 30 miles or so east is Canton ... travel north on the Loop to intersect I-20. This Wal-Mart opened, I believe, about 6 months ago. A strip mall is also new to the center, a new Sonic on the NW corner with the former Wal-Mart at the NE...

The shooting of a robber at a Bowie RV park led to a man's arrest Friday in the abduction of a woman in East Texas that was captured on a surveillance camera at the Wal-Mart where she had just ended her shift. The 19-year-old woman's body was found later. Johnny Lee Williams, 24, was arrested at about 7 a.m. Thursday morning at a Willcox hospital after being shot by an employee of an Bowie RV park investigators say he attempted to rob at gunpoint. He was being held on a $1 million bond at the Cochise County jail on an...

<p>TYLER, Texas - (KRT) - Two hours of grainy surveillance video captures every chilling detail.</p> <p>A man with a gym bag lurks for hours, eyeing the dwindling parade of late-night Wal-Mart shoppers, waiting for just the right victim.</p> <p>Just before midnight Wednesday, a smaller figure walks toward a truck at the edge of the parking lot.</p>

TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A college student whose abduction was captured on a surveillance videotape as she was leaving her clerk's job at a Wal-Mart was found shot to death Friday, and a suspect was arrested, authorities said. The body of Megan Leann Holden, 19, was discovered in a ditch alongside a highway in western Texas. Police said she was killed at the hands of a man who went on a multistate crime spree before he turned up Friday at an Arizona hospital with a gunshot wound. Authorities said the suspect, Johnny Lee Williams, 24, was driving the woman's pickup...

A Wal-Mart Cashier has been kidnapped in Tyler Texas. The kidnapping was caught on video tape. The truck is red. The license is forthcoming.