Murder Suspect Faces Court: Domestic Violence and Homicide Charges
WILMINGTON, NC- Darius Tyshaun Williams, charged with domestic violence and first-degree murder, made his first court appearance Wednesday morning after 36-year-old Cynthia Danielle Allen was found dead inside a home at 5536 Bavarian Lane in Murraysville Monday around 5 a.m.
Williams, 31, was arrested Tuesday in Columbus County and returned to New Hanover County after investigators sought his location in connection to Allen's homicide and several warrants in his name. New Hanover County Sheriff's Office released information to the public Tuesday, noting Williams was to be considered armed and dangerous and that they were seeking him as a person of interest in the investigation of Allen's death. His arrest later that day was without incident.
At the time of the press release, The New Hanover County Sheriff's office said they had active warrants for Williams for violation of a domestic violence protective order, felony stalking, felony breaking and entering, and felony larceny after breaking and entering.
Also at the time of the murder, the release stated The Wilmington Police department had active warrants out for Williams for the crime of domestic violence and breaking a domestic violence protective order.
Online records indicate Williams had at least a three-year history of acts of domestic violence and assault on both females and law enforcement in New Hanover County, as well as arrests for driving while impaired, violating a domestic violence protective order, unlawful possession of a firearm and public obstruction of justice in New Hanover County.
These same records show that during Domestic Violence Awareness month in October of 2023 both he and a black female named Cynthia Danielle Allen were placed under arrest and charged with assault the same day. It is unconfirmed at this time whether this was the same Cynthia Danielle Allen as the female found Monday morning by the same name. Allen's death comes approximately 6 months after the incident.
Experts say victims of interpersonal terrorism are most at risk of death at the time they leave the relationship, in particular if they seek legal assistance. The North Carolina Coalition for Domestic Violence, which regularly publishes statistics about domestic violence in North Carolina, says 104,299 crisis calls were fielded in North Carolina between July 2019 and June 2020, and 59,239 of these callers received services. Of those, 30.4% were African-American.
Although Allen had obtained a protective order, the National Institute of Justice and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention found in a 2000 survey that one half of restraining orders obtained by women against intimate partners who physically harmed them were violated. If the women were raped or stalked, the number jumped to two-thirds.
In his article The Tactical Topography of Stalking Victimization and Management, published in 2000 in Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, expert Brian Spitzberg notes that 21% of cases in which violence is reported also report an escalation of violent behavior after a protection order is issued.
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