About a year after his arrest, a man who Williams believes was the ex-boyfriend of a woman he was seeing threw a brown liquid in his face.
The Washington Post reports:
Williams said he initially thought it was coffee. But then he felt pain as if his body were on fire. “I thought I was going to die,” he said in an interview earlier this year.
The substance turned out to be acid. In court, his lawyers said he spent a year in the hospital, is blind in one eye, and had to undergo several life-threatening surgeries to correct the damage from the disfiguring attack. Williams still has burns on his face and a large protrusion on his head where doctors surgically inserted a rod to stretch his skin.