DATE: August 15, 2018
RE: PRESS RELEASE - DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCES - POUGHKEEPSIE MAN INDICTED FOR MURDER IN FLEEING CASE
RYAN WILLIAMS, 29, of 28 May Street, Poughkeepsie NY, was indicted by an Ulster County Grand Jury, on the charges of Murder in the Second Degree, Depraved Indifference to Human Life, Aggravated Vehicular Homicide, Unlawful Fleeing of a Police Officer in the First Degree, Assault in the Second Degree and Aggravated Operation of a Motor Vehicle in the First Degree. The indictment alleges that Williams fled police in a Porsche Cayenne at a high rate of speed while highly intoxicated on Route 299 in the Town of Lloyd, NY, on July 1, 2018. Approaching New Paltz, at the intersection of Route 299 and South Street, the defendant crossed into oncoming traffic striking a Ford F150 pick-up truck, killing the driver. Two other individuals, the driver’s daughter, a passenger in the pickup, and a woman in a car behind the pickup truck, suffered serious physical injuries.
Williams’s license had been revoked for a prior alcohol related charge and, at the time of this homicide, was operating without a valid license.
