Jackson, TN – A California man who shot a woman twice during an attempted
bank robbery has pleaded guilty to multiple charges
40 year old Dominic Williams snuck into the carport of Pamela Janeice
Frisbee on the morning of March 18, 2015. Frisbee, a manager of a
BancorpSouth bank, was at her home in Humboldt, preparing to leave for her
job. When she exited her house and walked to the carport to get into her
car, Williams was hiding in front of the vehicle with a Glock .40 caliber
pistol. He stood up and pointed the gun at Frisbee before asking her if
“she wanted to die today?” Williams forced Frisbee into the driver’s seat
of her vehicle at gunpoint and demanded that she drive to BancorpSouth.
Once at the bank, Williams forced her to open the doors — the bank had not
yet opened — and the two went inside.
He had her disable an alarm, and demanded she get money from the tellers’
drawers. The victim told Williams there was no money in the drawers.
Williams then demanded that she open
bank vaults. When the victim told him that she was unable to open the
vaults, he fired multiple shots at her, striking her in the chest and arm.
Frisbee fell to the ground and played dead. Williams then shot and kicked
out the back windows of the bank and fled.
Witnesses and bank employees notified the Humboldt Police Department (HPD)
of the incident. HPD’s chief of police saw Williams stripping clothing off
into a dumpster a block from the bank. The police chief
was able to arrest him. Frisbee was airlifted to a Memphis hospital,
Williams provided a statement, informing FBI agents of where he hid his
firearm and admitted that he attempted to rob the BancorpSouth bank.
FBI agents subsequently recovered the .40 caliber pistol used in the
crime. And clothing consistent with witness descriptions of the robber were
recovered, as well as a mask and a roll of duct tape.
Frisbee was able to testify in federal court that she was kidnapped,
forced against her will, assaulted, and that a firearm was discharged
inside the bank.
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, Williams pleaded guilty before U.S.
District Judge J. Daniel Breen to single counts of attempted bank robbery,
possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and felony possession
of a firearm.
Williams is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Breen on November 10, 2016.
He faces a minimum sentence of 25 years in federal prison.
