GA woman convicted of stabbing 17-year-old brother during argument in 2022

A Cherokee County jury convicted a Woodstock woman of stabbing her younger brother in 2022.

A jury deliberated about four hours before convicting Taeja Janae Williams on Friday, June 14.

Williams was convicted of aggravated assault, two counts of aggravated battery, cruelty to children in the first degree and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony.

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On December 21, 2022, Woodstock Police responded to a 911 call reporting a stabbing.

Officers determined that following a verbal argument inside their home, Williams, then 20, stabbed her brother, then 17, in the left chest, abdomen left and left shoulder.

Once at the hospital, hospital staff found that his blood pressure was dangerously low and that the knife had passed through his chest muscles and punctured his left lung.

The knife wound collapsed his left lung, severed a blood vessel in the lung and caused bruising and lacerations to the lung.

According to Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit District Attorney Susan K. Treadway, during the four-day trial in Superior Court, the jury heard testimony from six state witnesses, including the victim, her mother, three state troopers, law enforcement and the trauma surgeon. , plus one for the defense, Williams herself.

The jury reviewed 48 pieces of evidence, including the knife and other physical evidence, as well as photos taken during the investigation.

Sentencing will be set at a later date.

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