Man gets 25 years to life for killing ex-girlfriend
her daughter, whose last known address was on the Northeast Side. COLUMBUS — Six-foot-2 DarYalona Williams testified ryl Joe Lee beat 5-foot-4 Deloat Lee’s murder trial that victims. ris D. Williams unconscious, she spent hours on April 8
“There were no assump- wrapped her in a carpet and drinking and smoking crack tions as to what happened left her to suffocate in the cocaine with her sister and between her and the defen- back of his sport-utility vehi- Lee at his Near East Side dant. She was very clear it cle. apartment when he became happened too many times But he cared about Wilenraged at the victim for to count,” Parker said. liams, his ex-girlfriend, he using a racial slur against
Layman said there was told a judge at his sentenc- him. not an objective fact find- ing Friday. She said her sister grabbed ing process followed in the “I loved her, you know, a kitchen knife, which Lee investigation by police, who as a friend anyway,” Lee pounded out of her hand. He he argued displayed a lack told Franklin County Combeat her unconscious with of effort. mon Pleas Judge William his fists and other objects,
“Charles was assumed H. Woods. including a wireless speaker, guilty from moment of disWoods sentenced Lee, Yalona Williams said. She closure. Why didn’t they 59, to 25 1/2 years to life in said Lee revived her with dig deeper?” Layman said. prison for killing Williams, CPR but would not let her
He questioned why cor- 51, whose body was discovtake her sister from the apartroborating evidence was ered last April 10. It’s a life ment. He then wrapped her not sought about allegations sentence with no chance of body in the carpet and put that he said could have been parole for 25 1/2 years. her in the SUV. fabricated. “He wrapped her up and The Franklin County cor
Parker said the girl’s threw her out like trash,” a oner said Deloris Williams account, if believed by the sobbing Beverly Williams told had suffocated. jury, told the story. “She is Woods of how Lee treated worth listening to,” she said. Dispatch