A 26-year-old convicted black felon has been charged with murdering a Tampa man

Jontavis Devon Williams is being held without bond at the Hillsborough County Jail facing one count of 1st-degree murder with a firearm. According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office report the suspect turned himself in. Witnesses say that Williams shot Courtney Untwon Yates to death. A few hours earlier Yates got into a fight with a friend of Williams. When the friend told the suspect about the altercation, Williams became upset and went back to where the fight took place – the Columbia Palms apartment complex – to find Yates. Investigators say that when he found him he pulled a gun from his waistband and shot Yates in the chest. According to witnesses the suspect shot him two more times even though the victim begged for his life. Williams is no stranger to law enforcement in Hillsborough County and was already on felony probation at the time of this arrest. Since 2002 the suspect has been arrested four times on a variety of charges including burglary, robbery, petit theft, trespassing and drug possession.