State Attorney for the First District, which includes Okaloosa County, Ginger Bowden Madden announced on Monday she would seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Corporal Ray Hamilton in a Christmas-Eve shootout in Fort Walton Beach. 

Timothy Price-Williams allegedly shot and killed the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Deputy in a Christmas Eve SWAT Team action. The raid brought Timothy Price-Williams, II into custody after a domestic dispute. 

Price-Williams sits in the Okaloosa County Jail on charges for first-degree, premeditated murder, attempted first-degree murder, a second or subsequent offense for battery, and obstructing justice in a non-criminal proceeding by threatening a witness. Judge Angela Mason ordered Price-Williams held without bond leading up to the trial. 

“Every capital murder case must be evaluated on its own facts to determine if a reasonable jury made up of our citizens could unanimously sentence a defendant to death. It is the most serious penalty available under Florida law, and I approach this responsibility with great thoughtfulness, humility, and a sense of duty to the rule of law,” State Attorney Madden said, “Defendant Timothy Price-William II’s attack and killing of Corporal Hamilton, while he was performing his duties as a law enforcement officer, was particularly merciless and cruel. My office will ask a jury to sentence him to death.”