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When he was told that Martin identified as openly gay and was coordinator of an HIV prevention group, Williams began to sob uncontrollably.

Martin said he thought the revelation may have triggered the murders of Matson and Mowder. During searches of the brothers' homes and storage utilities, authorities also found a "hit list" of prominent Jewish civic leaders in the Sacramento, California area.

On March 17, the brothers were charged with setting the three synagogue fires and the July 2 fire at Country Club Medical Center, which housed an abortion clinic.

In September , the brothers pleaded guilty to their arson attacks against synagogues and clinics. In June , Matthew Williams' court-appointed attorney paid for an advertisement that appeared in the June 18 edition of The Redding Record Searchlight , congratulating Williams on being ordained as a minister by the Christ's Covenant Church.

The two-column-by-four-inch advertisement depicted a dove bearing an olive branch, and was labeled as having been placed by "the family and friends of Benjamin Matthew Williams.

The ad, which appeared on Father's Day , read "Rev. Williams: May your knowledge and faith continue to grow during your current persecutions and trials.

O'Connor and the Williams family refused to comment on the ad. The newspaper said that the advertising representative did not focus on Williams' name when the order was placed, and that the ad would not have been printed had the paper been aware of its content.

On June 22, , Matthew Williams and another inmate named Paul Smith attacked prison guard Timothy Renault with a homemade hatchet.

Renault suffered a skull fracture and a broken jaw. Matthew Williams was kept in a segregation unit following the attack. At a. It is believed that he killed himself sometime late the previous night, November 16, or early in the morning on the 17th.

Williams jammed his cell door with a piece of cardboard, and then spread a blanket between his cell toilet and the wall, so that he would not be seen by his jailers.

He bled to death from multiple self-inflicted slash wounds to his arms, legs, and neck from a disposable jail-issue razor he had modified to expose the blade, [22] attached to a handle fashioned from a ballpoint pen, and fastened to his wrist with dental floss.

Around his neck he wore an amulet fashioned from dental floss and aluminum foil, containing various items, including two Bible verses.

Officials did not say which Bible verses the amulet held, but in Williams's cell a Bible was open to Psalms 22 and He was scheduled to be sentenced on December 2.

After Matthew Williams's suicide, it was reported that the Shasta County jail had been ordered by the court to make sure that Williams had no narcotics in his system, so he could be drug-free for a brain scan his attorneys had arranged.

Williams was to be weaned off his medications, but Shasta County jail staff stopped Williams's medication abruptly. Two days prior to committing suicide, Matthew Williams mailed a signed confession to his brother's attorney, taking full responsibility for the murders of Matson and Mowder.

In the one-page letter, Williams wrote that it was an "accepted fact" that he killed Matson and Mowder, whom he referred to as "the 2 perverts.

While he later attempted to use this document to dismiss the charges against his client, the court rejected this approach, stating that the "confession" had no legal value and that they would neither dismiss any charges against Tyler nor consider any leniency in a plea bargain as a result of it.

In March Tyler Williams pleaded guilty to the murders of Matson and Mowder. Under a plea agreement , Williams was sentenced to 29 years to life , to be served after a year sentence in the synagogue and clinic arsons.

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After selling the sub shop, Gary transitioned to working for Mr. Jackson and Ocean Lakes where he worked until retirement.

Anyone who knew Gary found him to be the life of the party. Gary enjoyed adventure in his life. He had a great love for the ocean and surfing as well as other things such as riding his motorcycles.

He definitely enjoyed riding really fast in front of a gang of his friends and would leave them in a dusty trail of his rear-view mirror. Gary is survived by his daughter, Angie Matson Reed, her husband Jason C.

A celebration of life will be held Saturday, January 9th, at pm at Ocean Lakes Campground Recreation Center.

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