Clarence Williams

Washington, D.C.

Local reporter covering crime, breaking news, and public safety issues Education: Masters in Journalism, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. ; B.A. American Studies, George Mason University

 Clarence Williams has spent almost two decades in the streets at crime scenes, riding in police cars or waking officials in the middle of the night to gather information about breaking news in and around Washington as the night police reporter for The Washington Post.

Clarence has been pepper-sprayed at World Bank-IMF protests, witnessed martial law curfews in Baltimore, covered the crime scene of a D.C. sniper victim, uncovered a deaf man wrongly jailed for 22 months in the District, and chased stories of fire, drug dealing and general mayhem across the Washington region.

Reporting assignments sent him from the Rugby World Cup in Australia to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, to the fields of Honduras and to nearly every difficult neighborhood in the District.

Latest from Clarence Williams

Fire envelops one-story home in the Silver Spring area

No injuries reported by ranch-style home damaged significantly

Mar 22, 2019

Police identify Woodbridge couple killed during murder-suicide

Authorities said killings happened as police tried to serve husband with assault charges and a restraining order.

Mar 21, 2019

Charlottesville cancels public school classes Thursday in response to threat

Closure happens as city police, federal agents investigate threat against city high school.

Mar 20, 2019

Man fatally shot woman and turned the gun on himself in Dumfries

Prince William County police investigating murder-suicide following an argument.

Mar 20, 2019

Judge’s ruling allows protesters’ suit against Turkey over D.C. attack to proceed

A federal judge allows portions of the suit to go forward against three men for their alleged involvement in beatings outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in 2017.

Mar 18, 2019

Police arrest man projecting ‘discrimination is wrong’ onto outside of Rayburn House Office Building

Experts say case may spark debate over balance of First Amendment rights and security restrictions.

Mar 15, 2019

Eight people shot, one fatally, in a violent night in the District

Police say the shootings occurred in five incidents and that a 25-year-old man died in Columbia Heights.

Mar 15, 2019

Woman struck and killed by Red Line train

The victim appeared to step onto the tracks intentionally, officials said.

Mar 15, 2019

‘Brazen’ daylight shooting kills man in D.C.’s Columbia Heights

The man was found unconscious in the courtyard of the Columbia Heights Village apartments.

Mar 14, 2019

Washington becomes a sea of red in celebration of the Capitals’ first Stanley Cup championship

The District rocked the red as never before as the Capitals clinched their first Stanley Cup.

Jun 8, 2018