Williams, Khalilah J

Tenure Summary

What happened on their watch

The death records supplied for this tenure begin in 2020. Coroner records reviewed by GPS list Cantrell Lavar Edge, 41; Caesar Dupree, 64; and Tadrick Terrian Osborne, 40, as in-patient ICU deaths in August and September 2020 with COVID-19 documented. William D. Hughes, 61, and Kenneth Lockett, 57, died in October 2020 with cardiac, respiratory, renal, or chronic conditions noted by coroner records.

In 2021, Hoke Smith Tarpley, 57, died from diabetic ketoacidosis, per coroner records. Stewart Myles Mitchell, 36, died Dec. 7, 2021; GPS notes that GDC’s own coding, obtained by the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project through open records, classified the death as “Undetermined.”

The 2022 record includes two violent deaths. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation documented Hezekiah Cuyler, 21, who died Sept. 14, 2022, from blunt force trauma to the head after a fight at Dodge, and Douglas Anthony Forts, 57, who died June 2, 2022, from acute traumatic amputation of a finger during a fight. Coroner records reviewed by GPS list Cuyler’s manner as homicide; the coroner form for Forts was blank, and GPS classifies the death as homicide in an in-custody assault context. Arnold Merle McDonald, 63, died Dec. 22, 2022, after a fall and subdural hematoma; the coroner left manner blank.

In 2023, coroner records reviewed by GPS list Charles Dennis Casey, 41, as a suicide by hanging. John August Comer, 33, was found hanging with a sheet and had a known mental-health history; his manner was recorded as pending. Kenneth Brown, 58, was found dead in his cell on Jan. 31, 2024, with coroner records listing suicide by hanging.

In 2025, Sotero Uriquiza-Hernandez, 51, collapsed and died May 20; Joseph Chatfield, 62, died June 13 with cause left blank pending toxicology, according to coroner records. Separately, a Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger entry dated May 26, 2025, records a $16,000 state liability payout tied to Dodge State Prison, incident 2025, naming Kimyania Smith.

The most recent death record, dated April 28, 2026, lists Warren Peacock, 70, with chronic hypertension, kidney disease, COPD, and diabetes; the coroner recorded autopsy and toxicology as pending. GPS notes that a subsequent GBI open-records response located no responsive records for that case as of Aug. 1, 2026.

GPS records contain no facility-linked intel reports or news mentions naming Williams.

Sources

• Dodge County Coroner open-records material, June 30, 2026, reviewed by GPS.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Georgia Prison Homicides Investigation (Hezekiah Cuyler, Douglas Anthony Forts).
• UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project custodial mortality dataset, sourced from GDC open records.
• Georgia DOAS Risk Management settlement ledger, Open Records.
• GPS personnel, death attribution, and incident records.

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 16, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.