Judge: No bail for ex-worker accused of stabbing boss

New documents released by law enforcement Thursday may offer clues to a motive in a fatal grocery store stabbing Wednesday. Caswayne Williams had recently been fired from the WalMart Neighborhood Market where he showed up Wednesday morning with a knife, according to the sheriff ’s office.

Surveillance video showed Williams, 23, riding a bicycle up to the store’s gas station on Lee Road, west of Interstate 4, just before 9 a.m., according to an arrest report.

He is seen walking inside and waiting until his former supervisor, Davon Brown, 25, gets behind the front counter, the report states.

Deputies said the video then shows Williams attacking Brown from behind. Brown fell to the ground and was stabbed several times, but managed to get up and run outside, the report states. He made it the sidewalk just outside the doors, while Williams continued to stab him, deputies said.

Witnesses found him moments later, lying barely conscious on the cement, repeating “Caswayne,” according to the report.

A store manager told Orange County sheriff ’s detectives that he recently fired Williams “for making racial, sexual orientation and derogatory remarks,” toward Brown, the report states.

A judge Thursday morning ordered Williams be held in jail without bail on a charge of firstdegree murder.

Williams stood with a courtappointed lawyer during the hearing and stared blankly ahead as Judge Adam McGinnis read him the charge. He kept quiet, responding with a short, “OK,” when McGinnis denied him bail. A corrections officer then led him out of the jailhouse courtroom.

Deputies said Williams fled from the gas station after the incident, but was spotted about an hour and a half later, less than one mile away near Fairbanks Avenue and Wymore Road.

Brown was rushed to Florida Hospital Orlando, where an emergency room doctor pronounced him dead.

Williams is being held in the Orange County Jail.