Credit: Bristol Township police
A Bristol Township heroin dealer who shot at an occupied home in late 2016 will spend time in state prison.
Audrette Williams, 29, was sentenced last week to seven to 15 years in a state correctional facility for possession with intent to deliver heroin and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. He will also serve seven years of concurrent probation for discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.
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In February, Williams was convicted following a non-jury trial before Bucks County Judge Wallace Bateman at the Justice Center in Doylestown.
Williams fired a gun into a home in the 1800 block of Foster Avenue Circle around 5 p.m. on December 20, 2016. The bullet shot through a window jamb and drywall before ending up on a bed.
No one inside the home was hurt.
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Police said Williams, who has previously drug-related convictions, had fired the gun while chasing his ex-girlfriend while driving a black Nissan.
Officers later searched the Nissan Williams was driving and found 45 bundles of heroin and a Smith and Wesson 28-2 Highway Patrolman .357 revolver with two spent casings inside it, authorities said.
“He fired indiscriminately at someone, and it wound up in the bedroom of someone not even involved” Assistant District Attorney William Murphy told the judge at the sentencing. “To add insult to injury, he has all this heroin in this car … He’s a heroin dealer with a gun, driving around.”
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In court, Williams said he was a hardworking family man who went to church and was cooperative with Bristol Township police.
“You’re a heroin dealer, it’s obvious. You’re at it again,” Bateman said. “Dealing heroin, firing a weapon in a neighborhood … we need to protect the community. I don’t know if you fully understand the magnitude and gravity of what you have done.”
Williams also was sentenced to nine to 36 months in prison for an unrelated aggravated assault by vehicle case out of Bristol Township. Williams was involved in a crash where he seriously injured a motorcyclist in July 2016 while driving with marijuana metabolite in his blood.
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