Cop-Killer Freed From Death Row Tries to Kill Again

Timothy McKinney was a death row inmate who was supposed to be a
prepping for his last meal behind bars when he was given a second chance at life.

McKinney is a convicted cop killer who spent 15 years in prison—10 of them on death row—but was released
because prosecutors failed to secure a murder conviction. Barely free two years, a Tennessee jury found McKinney
guilty last week of attempted second-degree murder and multiple weapons charges for shooting at a rival and striking a teenage boy instead.

Hanging over the trial like a ghost was Memphis Police Officer Don Williams, who McKinney killed on Christmas 1997.
McKinney only received an abbreviated sentence for that murder, but now he could serve the rest of his life behind
bars for the shooting standoff at a grocery store.

The news is of little consolation to Williams’s brother.

“He could stand to get the rest of the time he never served,” Vince Higgins told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview.
“So I think Don has had the last laugh. I know Don would make a big joke about all this and leave us with this good burn.”


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After the vicious shooting Williams held on for a few weeks.

But the bedside vigils were hard on Higgins. “I cannot remember my life and what I was doing
or anything from January 1998,” he said.   “I was so consumed because Don was my best friend. He still is.”

Williams and Higgins watched as McKinney perp-walked on the local news.

“I was standing right next to him at the ICU watching the news of them arresting McKinney,” Higgins said.
“Don closed his eyes for so long I thought he was gone. I said, ‘Don!’ He looked at me. I said, ‘They got him.’ And he kind of nodded.”

Higgins tried to stay upbeat for his pal. A diehard Denver Broncos fan, Higgins promised
to dress up in full Dallas Cowboys regalia for Williams when he was discharged from the hospital.

“He shook his head,” Higgins said, of the man who would have turned 56 years old next month.
“I said, ‘No, Don, when we get out of here we’re going to fix up your house so you can get in and out—you don’t have to worry about a thing.

“He shook his head again. I knew.”