Round Rock Father Faces 40 Years In Prison In 2019 Infant Death

Round Rock TX

22 November, 2021

1:04 PM

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ROUND ROCK, TX — A Round Rock father accused of beating his three month-old child to death in 2019 now faces 40 years in prison. Malik Williams pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Nov. 4 in Williamson County, according to court documents. He was arrested after taking his daughter to the hospital when she died. The incident occurred on Aug. 3, 2019 after 9 p.m. along the 500 block of Buckboard Boulevard, according to a 2019 Patch article. Live in Round Rock? Click here to subscribe to our free breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox and mobile devices. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and download our free mobile app on Android or iPhone. When Round Rock police asked him what happened, Williams, then 22, said he didn't know — telling officers he found her rolled over and not breathing in her bed. But police say the emergency room physician on the scene said the baby's injuries included multiple healing fractures to the chest, ribs and skull. Court documents say he later changed his story, telling police he'd been frustrated and intentionally hit the baby's head against the wooden railing of her bassinet and that he had squeezed her abdomen with his hands — and that he had done both before. Police say Williams admitted he'd squeezed her neck for 2-3 minutes that night and that, in doing so, "knew that she would die," his arrest affidavit said. Williams was sentenced to 40 years in prison on the charge of capital murder of a person under 10 years old.