March 16--A 45-year-old woman has been charged with killing her 80-year-old boyfriend in the fall of 2014, according to authorities.
Police said Tambra Davis hit 80-year-old Jay Williams, who she lived with, in the head with a blunt object during an argument in the 7300 block of South Hermitage Avenue. She has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing.
Williams had been dating the woman and the two argued before she hit him with the object, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.
A witness in the house at the time heard the two arguing, heard a loud noise, and then found Williams on the floor bleeding and Davis running from the home.
Williams was taken to Holy Cross Hospital after he was hit with the object, according to authorities. He was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital for brain surgery because he had bleeding in his brain.
He died Nov. 22, 2014, about three weeks after the argument and a day after leaving a rehab hospital where he had been transferred to after surgery.
The medical examiner's office deferred a ruling on the cause and manner of his death at the time but in spring of 2015 ruled the death a homicide, according to prosecutors.
Davis, of the 9000 block of South Burley Avenue, was arrested at home about 9:40 p.m. March 10 and appeared in court Sunday, according to authorities.
She was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bond. She's due in court again on March 31.
