Affidavit: Man accused of killing Hutto sergeant used meth
Document says suspect admitted using meth, pot daily for 2 years.
A man accused of killing Hutto police Sgt. Chris Kelley by running him over with a patrol car in 2015 had taken methamphetamine three times within 17 hours before the crime, according to a notice prosecutors have filed.
The document said Colby Williamson admitted to using meth and marijuana daily for two years before the incident.
The trial for Williamson, 28, is scheduled to start in late August. He has been charged with murder, evading arrest with a vehicle causing death, accident causing death and assault of a public servant. He faces up to 99 years in prison.
Kelley died June 24, 2015, in Hutto after officials say Williamson ran him over in the sergeant’s own patrol car.
The incident started when Hutto police tried to pull over Williamson at about 10 a.m., but he refused to stop, crashed his car into a fire hydrant and ran away, an arrest affidavit said.
It said Kelley caught up with him and tried to put handcuffs on him, but Williamson used his body to throw the sergeant off balance. Williamson then ran to Kelley’s patrol car and got in the front seat.
Kelley followed and tried to stop Williamson from driving off by grabbing the steering wheel and stepping on the brake, the affidavit said. It said Williamson put the car in reverse, the sergeant fell down and Williamson ran over him.
Prosecutors filed a notice July 14 that said if Williamson is found guilty, they intend to introduce evidence in the sentencing phase of his prior criminal record.
The notice said Williamson took methamphetamine three times in the 17 hours before running over the officer, including “around
5 p.m. the day before the offense by snorting it; around midnight, by snorting it and around 1-2 a.m., by shooting it up.”
During one of those three times, a woman whom he had a relationship with saw him snorting methamphetamine around midnight to 1 a.m. on June 24, the notice said.
It also said a man saw Williamson taking “the biggest shot” of meth that the man “had ever seen one person consume” sometime on June 23 or June 24.
It wasn’t clear from the notice whether that was one of the three times Williamson took methamphetamine in the 24 hours before the offense.
The day after Kelley was killed, Williamson said during a mental health screening “that he used methamphetamine and marijuana daily for the previous two years,” the notice said.
Williamson’s lawyer didn’t respond to a request for comment Friday.
Former Williamson County District Attorney Jana Duty said the grand jury didn’t indict Williamson on a capital murder charge because the crime didn’t meet the elements required for the offense.
Williamson has been held in the Williamson County Jail since his arrest with bail set at $1 million.