More About The Violent History of Riverside Toyota Employee Bradley Allen Williams

January 31, 2010

It is rainy and cold as we drive up the gravel driveway to the beautiful home of E & S. It is almost dark on this last Friday night of January 2010, and weather forecasters are predicting ice and snow for North Georgia. But this couple is anxious to tell their story, about their violent encounter with Bradley Allen Williams, who would later brutally assault Jeff Green at the Riverside Toyota location on Hwy 411. It is at Riverside Toyota where Williams worked, (AND STILL WORKS), when he beat Jeff Green so badly with monkey wrench, that Jeff Green’s eyeball was dislodged from it socket – his face crushed so badly that only titanium plates surgically implanted could restore some sense of normalcy to Jeff Green’s facial structure.

That beating, detailed in our December 7, 2009 article, A Very Difficult Story to Write . did not have to take place IF the Bradley Allen Williams’ probation Officer had done his/her job.

After reading that story, a loyal follower of this website contacted the right folks, including the Private Investigator who first brought this story to me, and Jeff Green was able to contact Atlanta attorney Mel Hewitt, who filed a law suit against Riverside Toyota and Bradley Allen Williams, literally hours before the civil statute of limitations ran on any claims for liability Jeff Green had against them for the devastatingly traumatic, life altering injuries he sustained at the hands of his assailant, Bradley Allen Williams, a felon with a history of violence. (See December 17, 2009 article:

Law Suit Filed Against Bradley Allen Williams, Riverside Motorworks and More .

But on this cold, rainy Friday evening in January, E & S have a chance to tell their story, and we learn that the Probation Office already had good evidence that Bradley Allen Williams was prone to violence, and could have intervened several years ago, so that Williams would not have been �in a position to attack Jeff Green.

Several years ago, both E and S were employed at Capitoline Products, Inc. a local producer of countertops and such.� E worked in the office and her husband, S, was a Plant Supervisor.

According to S, Capitoline hires a lot of felons on work release through various counties’ Probation Offices. Bradley Allen Williams was one such hire, and according to S, many of the hires complain about work a lot, but in Williams’ case, the trash talk got to be too much.

As S remembers, it was a Friday morning, and quite often, when work was slow, Capitoline would let its workers take off early on Friday. But this particular day, Capitoline had a lot of work, and when Williams insisted that he wanted off, he was told he could not have it.

“He cursed me and I said, ‘That’s enough’.� I had had nothing but trouble from him, [Bradley Allen Williams], for the several weeks or so he had worked for me, and so I headed to the office.� I didn’t even know he was following me”.

E interrupts her husband at this point. “I was back in the office and we heard a commotion, people yelling, and I opened the door and saw S coming towards me, people yelling and running after this man who was running up behind my husband. He [Williams] swung and hit him [S] on the back of the head, and knocked him to the ground”.

S continues:

“They tell me he came running for about 15 yards or so, and the other guys were yelling, to warn me, but I couldn’t hear what they were saying”.

S was able to get up immediately, and grabbed BAW, and restrained him for a few seconds until others in the plant reached him, including GK and HH. “I told them, hold him down and I’m going to call the police”, at which point S went into the office, called 9111, and went back outside to where he had been attacked.� He stepped outside of the office just in time to see BAW running out of the plant as fast as he could.

“He never came back”.

Although Bradley Allen Williams never came back to Capitoline, not even to collect his pay check, as far as S remembers, but the HR people, Rick Lam and Bob Anderson, helped S get BAW’s personnel files, to look up his probation officer. The call was placed, and S was under the impression that BAW’s probation would be revoked.

The Floyd County Police also responded, and filled out an Incident Report, but back then, it was up to the victim to go down to the police station, pay $15.00 for the police report, and take it to Magistrates’ Court to file for a probable cause warrant.� S was too busy with work at Capitoline, and he assumed the Floyd County Division of the Probation Office would take care of matters.

Apparently not.

But when one fast forwards to the brutal attack on Jeff Green in December of 2009, one wonders what happened to all of that? �I have been to the Floyd County Clerk’s Office and pulled that file.� It is very skimpy, and even though the Private Investigator provided the DA’s Office with the grotesque medical record from Jeff Green’s assault by BAW, they are curiously missing from the file at the courthouse. Nothing in that file suggests that BAW was ever a convicted felon on probation.� Nothing suggests that any disciplinary actions were taken by his Probation Officer relative to BAW’s assault on S at Capitloine.

If any private taxpayer/citizen or reporter who was going through the records and was content to just believe what he/she saw in the skimpy courthouse file, one would simply just think that what happened to Jeff Green in December 2007 was an isolated incident, and a slight personal altercation between Green and Williams. Nothing notes the brutality of the attack or the detailed witness accounts.

There is no hint of the violent past behavior of Bradley Allen Williams, which has literally jeopardized lives and property.

Why did the District Attorney’s office nolle prosse Bradley Allen William’s indictment last year?� Why was BAW never disciplined by his Probation Officer for his attack on his supervisor several years ago? Why is BAW’s file so skimpy? Why is the whole story about BAW’s record not in the file at the Floyd County Clerk’s Office?

Who is protecting Bradley Allen Williams?� Favors from BAW’s father-in-law, former DA Steve Lanier? Current District Attorney Leigh Patterson, whom the owners of Riverside Toyota are such big supporters? Comic Book stores owners who accidentally give out comic books at Halloween which contain a historically accurate cartoon of a nude, will be relentlessly pursued, but violent felons who brutalize members of the public will have their records hidden, and charges nolle pross’ed?

Wouldn’t it be odd if it was discovered that anyone in any of those offices had a new vehicle from one of the Riverside Motorworks entities, for which they had had to pay little to nothing? There are many questions lingering, but I suspect that Mr. Hewitt, Jeff Green’s attorney, will be getting to the bottom of this deep well, through discovery in the law suit now pending against BAW, Riverside Motorworks, Riverside Toyota, and several un-named, John Doe corporate entities – ESPECIALLY now that his law firm has been in touch with S about the Capitoline incident several years ago.

This Final word:

Even with all of the recent scrutiny of this case, and all of the attention focused on Bradley Allen Williams, he still continues to threaten witnesses to the December 2007 attack on Jeff Green.� As I was completing this article yesterday, “Motown”, the gentleman who drove Jeff Green to the hospital after Mr. Green was so brutally attacked by BAW, called me.� He had been at the AT&T store, yesterday, checking on some issues with his phone, when Bradley Allen William approached him. “He was all up in my face, talking this stuff, telling me I had better keep my mouth shut, and stay away from that woman on the computer [This reporter]”.

According to Motown, BAW was so aggressive that the woman assisting Motown at the store asked Motown if he wanted her to call 911.

Someone needs to do something before another person’s life is damaged or possibly brutally ended by Bradley Allen Williams. This reporter wonders who BAW’s next victim will be.

Teresa Watson