MAN BELIEVED TO BE KILLED BY ELECTROCUTION

BONHAM -- The death of 28-year-old Michael Lee Williams Saturday morning is
believed by law enforcement to have been caused by electrocution from
copper wires he was allegedly stealing. In a Fannin County Sheriff's
Office report by Investigator Wayne Walker, he said that law enforcement
and ambulance service were called to Private Road 155, off FM 1550, and
what was originally called in was a four-wheeler accident. Mr. Williams had
already been taken to Red River Regional Medical Center in Bonham, and
Walker began interviewing others still at the scene.

A 30-year-old woman said she and Mr. Williams had been riding the
four-wheeler on his mother's property. She went into his mother's house for
a few minutes, and when she returned, she found Mr. Williams lying on the
ground, one part of a meter loop laying across his chest. She pushed it
aside, got on the four-wheeler and raced back to his mother's house for help.

During that interview, the report said, the woman stated she knew Mr.
Williams had been stealing copper from houses in the past and believed he
was attempting to steal this copper. She told Walker, according to the
report, that she had taken Mr. Williams to an Ector recycling place "many
times to sell copper wire." There was another male who went with them, she
stated, but she was unable to name him.

Walker's next interview was with Mr. Williams' family members. His sister
and step-father said they raced back with the woman to his body, took his
pulse and knew he was dead. They also stated she knew he had been stealing
copper wire and committing burglaries for some time. She confronted him on
it before, she told Walker, and he admitted to the acts. She even said she
warned him he would get electrocuted one day, but he stated he knew what he
was doing, the report continues.

The step-father stated to Walker that Mr. Williams had not been allowed on
the family property until recently, "due to his stealing and
methamphetamine habit," the report said. Mr. Williams' mother had asked
that he be allowed back on the property to visit.

At the scene, Walker reported, he saw a pair of large red wire cutters
tangled in the guide wires to the power pole. "It appears the deceased had
attempted to use this guide wire as a ground for the wire cutters," the
report states. On top of the meter loop, he found a shoe print that matched
Mr. Williams' shoe, and a hat and glove were nearby. Walker's report states
"It was apparent from the cut wiring that the deceased had attempted to cut
the copper wire from the power pole drop to the meter loop. During this
endeavor the deceased had accidentally touched two hot wires together,
causing the circuit to be completed, and he was electrocuted."

They also found a large, red four-wheeler hidden in the woods near the
incident site, which they determined matched one stolen recently out of
Bonham. After finding that, the woman who earlier had said she rode it to
Mr. Williams' family's house stated that she had put it behind the trees
and actually went in her car to their house. She stated, the report
continues, that Mr. Williams had told her he'd stolen it.

With that, the step-father asked deputies to go to his house where there
were tools taken from the woman's car that morning. Bonham P.D.
Investigator Terry Bee, also on the scene, identified those tools as having
been stolen in a burglary about a week before. The woman told Walker Mr.
Williams had attempted to sell or trade them in Denison for meth, but that
didn't work, so he still had them.

The stolen items have been returned to their owner, according to the report.

Red River Regional doctors said they called for a justice of the peace
after determining Mr. Williams was dead. They said the electricity went
into the middle of his chest and came out through the left side of his back
and arm. Judge A. Hale pronounced Mr. Williams dead at 11:45 a.m.