Overview
- Kendrick Williams, 32, of Fall River, was arrested Wednesday in Jacksonville in connection with the fatal shooting of Taiquan Teixeira.
- Prosecutors charged Williams with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury and multiple firearms offenses, including carrying a firearm subsequent offense and carrying a loaded firearm.
- Teixeira, 31, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound after a 4:30 p.m. 911 call reporting men fighting outside Leonard’s Package Store at 1331 Pleasant St.
- Williams has active probation-violation warrants tied to a 2012 armed home invasion and related masked armed robbery cases that originated in Plymouth County and are now under Bristol County supervision.
- No arraignment date has been set while authorities arrange his return to Massachusetts, and prosecutors have not said whether they are seeking additional suspects.