Twenty-four-year-old father of one Nathan Williams was studying business at Greenwich University in London. According to friends and family, he was a friendly, popular student, a good guy who doted on his two-year-old son and was seemingly not involved in anything untoward.
However, at about one-thirty a.m. on July 28th, 2009, Nathan had driven his Volkswagen Golf to pick up his girlfriend on Ludwick Mews in New Cross. He was turning around in his vehicle when several people ran up to his car and shot him through the window with a shotgun and a handgun before fleeing into the darkness.
Nathan was rushed to nearby Kings College Hospital but sadly died of his injuries. Witnesses later told police that there may have been as many as four perpetrators of the senseless shooting.
Authorities made a few arrests in the days following the crime, including taking two unnamed twenty-five-year-old men into custody, but all persons of interest were subsequently released due to lack of evidence.
Because there didn’t seem to be anything in Nathan’s background suggesting drug or gang involvement, detectives speculated that the murder might have been a case of mistaken identity.
A renewed plea for information was made in 2015, and a reward of £20,000 is still on offer. However, as of May 2024, the brutal and possibly random shooting of Nathan Williams is still unsolved.
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