Vallum had also reportedly lied to law enforcement about the murder. Vallum reportedly went to Williamson's home in Alabama and persuaded her to get into his car and ride with him to Mississippi. The Justice Department said Vallum and Williamson fell out of touch after dating for a while and had no contact until the night of the murder. Hate Crimes Prevention Act also called the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a federal hate crime statute signed into law in 2009. In December 2016, Vallum pleaded guilty of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Gang rules barred homosexual activity and declared it punishable by death. He reportedly killed her to prevent Latin Kings gang members from discovering the two were having sex. He then struck blows on her head with a hammer after she tried running away. Vallum is said to have shocked Williamson with a stun gun before stabbing her repeatedly with a pocket knife. He secretly dated Williamson during the summer of 2014, according to prosecutors.
Vallum was also a member of the Latin Kings street gang, which is believed to be the largest Hispanic gang in the US. Vallum had previously been sentenced to life in prison without parole in a state court for the same murder.īut federal prosecutors brought an additional lawsuit for hate crime because Mississippi lacks a statute protecting people against hate crimes based on their gender identity, the Department of Justice said.
He is also said to have tried to take his life when he was around seven or eight years old. When he was only two or three he was reportedly locked in a room by his mother for hours on end while the adults in the house "did drugs", prosecutors said. Jousha Vallum, 29, is said to have had a neglected childhood. The 29-year-old appeared in Gulfport, Mississippi before a federal judge who could have imposed a maximum sentence of life without parole. London man jailed after raping transgender women
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