By Barton Deiters
MLive
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Jurors on Tuesday watched the Kent County Jail video showing Willie Lee-Wilson Williams crawling across the floor and then striding up to corrections officer Jaclynn Rodriguez and forcing her to the ground.
Jurors could see the young woman’s legs flailing and then stop after about 30 seconds as other inmates got out of their cells and attacked her assailant.
Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Robin Eslinger said in her opening statement that the video doesn’t show the whole story of the Sept. 14 incident.
She says Williams dragged the young woman away from the inmates who were trying to protect her and then strangled her again before other jail deputies came to see what was happening.
“’I thought he was going to kill her.’ That is how inmate after inmate described the assault on Jaclynn Rodriguez, strangling her until she appeared lifeless,” Eslinger told a Kent County Circuit Court jury.
Full story: Jury sees video showing attack on female Kent County corrections officer