(NewsNation) — A suspect was arrested Thursday in connection to the killing of a 25-year-old North Carolina woman whose final moments were seen on a Ring doorbell camera 12 days earlier.
Tyrell Siermons, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder, according to the Fayetteville Police Department in North Carolina.
Heather Williams search
Heather Williams was last seen leaving her parents’ home in Fayetteville on Jan. 4.
Ring doorbell camera footage shows her walking out the front door, walking across the lawn and getting in a gray four-door Sedan driven by an unknown person.
Police found her body in a wooded area after searching the vehicle seen in the video.
“It’s kind of crazy how this whole investigation unfolded last week,” Mary Williams, Heather Williams’ sister, told NewsNation on “Banfield.” “We checked the security camera footage and saw on Sunday morning that Heather hadn’t come home and that she had left that night getting into this unknown vehicle that we had no idea who it was that picked her up.”
Heather was almost entirely mute after being hit by a car in 2015 and spending months in a coma. Her family said she was learning how to walk and talk again, but her brain injuries left her overly trusting of strangers.
After filing a missing person report, Williams said her mom pulled Verizon phone records to see who Heather’s last point of contact was.
Williams then called an unknown number — Heather’s last call, which lasted three minutes.
“I told him who I was, that we haven’t seen Heather. I asked him if he had picked her up or been with her recently,” Williams said. “He did tell me that he did pick her up, that he had met her on Facebook and that he couldn’t tell me which night it was.”
Heather Williams’s last moments caught on Ring doorbell
She sent him the Ring doorbell video of her sister’s final moments.
“He picked her up. He couldn’t remember, couldn’t even tell me what they did, so I tried to pry,” Williams explained. “I said, ‘Where’d you go? What’d you do?’ He said that she wanted to be dropped off at another location. She asked to go to somebody else’s house the whole time, and so that’s where he took her, dropped her off at somebody’s house.”
Williams said the man on the phone told her he drives a red SUV. She also asked him to send her Facebook messages between the two, but he never did.
“He did finally come back and say he picked her up that night, but that he was using his friend’s car so that he wasn’t lying about driving a red SUV, but that he was borrowing a car that night,” Mary said.
The car in the video is not a red SUV.
Police searched the car seen in the video Jan. 9 and soon after found Heather’s body in a wooded area.
“I don’t think that (the suspect) actually led them there. I think something they found in the car is what led them there to Heather,” Williams said.
Tyrell Siermons arrested
Police say Siermons was recently released from prison for allegedly robbing, kidnapping and shooting someone, who ended up surviving.
“I’m not angry at the justice system or at the people who didn’t keep him locked up. I’m angry at him because he’s who to blame,” Mary said. “He’s the one that made the decisions, and other people shouldn’t have to answer for his actions because he’s the one who did this, and he is the one with evil in him.”