CLEVELAND, OH – Six people were indicted for torturing and killing a 24-year-old woman in East Cleveland last November.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced today that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Portria Williams, 31, Destiny Henderson, 18, Nathaniel Poke, 23, Anthony Bryant, 19, Hakeem-Ali Shomo, 31, and Brittany Smith, 33, for murder, aggravated murder, assault, and kidnapping.
According to police, on November 4, 2021, Portia Williams, Destiny Henderson, Nathaniel Poke, and Hakeem-Ali Shomo drove to a residence near Glenmont Road and Superior Road in East Cleveland. Henderson and Shomo, who was armed with a gun, forced two female victims to get inside their vehicle and take them to the location of 21-year-old Alishah Pointer.
Court records show they drove the two women to Pointer then lured her out of a house and took her to another location at gunpoint.
Police said the six individuals released the first two victims and drove Pointer to Williams’s residence and held her into the next day.
“While there, Brittany Smith and Anthony Bryant arrived at Williams’s residence and Poke left. Then Shomo, Smith, and Bryant physically assaulted the victim in order to gain information related to their friend’s death. Afterward, Shomo left Williams’s residence,” police said in a statement.
Henderson, Smith, Williams, and Bryant then forced Pointer inside their vehicle and drove her to an abandoned home near Savannah Avenue and Manhattan Avenue in East Cleveland. After forcing her inside, Williams and Bryant fired several shots at the victim. After, Henderson, Williams, Bryant, and Smith left the scene and went to Shomo’s residence.
On November 9, the East Cleveland Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation located the victim (A.P.) in the abandoned house and she was pronounced deceased at the scene.