Some people say murder suspect Robert Williams should have never been let out of prison.

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TASK FORCE SAYS THEY CAUGHT THE SUSPECTS WITHOUT INCIDENT. ON TUESDAY, 54-YEAR OLD JERRY McEWEN WAS STABBED AFTER HE TRIED TO HELP A WOMAN WHO [CMBREAKPOINT] HAD JUST HAD HER PURSE STOLEN. DETECTIVES BELIEVE ROBERT WILLIAMS KILLED THE MAN... AND HIS GIRLFRIEND, STEPHANIE HUDSON, DROVE THE GET AWAY VEHICLE. TONIGHT, METRO POLICE ARE RELIEVED TO HAVE THEM IN CUSTODY. [CMBREAKPOINT] Don Aaron says at 32:07: "We pulled out all the stops in trying to locate these two individuals, this was a heinous murder, it shocked the community, it was in broad daylight."[CMBREAKPOINT] daylight." MARSHALS HAVE ALSO RECOVERED THE S-U-V THEY BELIEVE WAS USED IN THE CRIME. WILLIAMS AND HUDSON ARE BEING HELD WITHOUT BOND IN MISSISSIPPI TONIGHT... PENDING THEIR EXTRADITION BACK TO NASHVILLE.[CMBREAKPOINT] THE NEWS THAT ROBERT WILLIAMS IS THE ALLEGED KILLER IN THIS CASE HAS RAISED A LOT OF EYEBROWS. EYEBROWS. WILLIAMS IS NO STRANGER TO CRIME... AND TONIGHT SOME SAY HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN LET OUT OF PRISON. [CMBREAKPOINT] FOX 17'S JOHN DUNN HAS BEEN LOOKING INTO WILLIAMS' RECORD AND JOINS US NOW WITH MORE. MORE. WE WENT THROUGH ROBERT WILLIAMS PAROLE FILE TODAY... AND FOUND A LONG HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. NEVERTHELESS WILLIAMS WAS GIVEN SECOND .. THIRD AND FOURTH CHANCES. AND IF POLICE ARE RIGHT... THAT DECISION HAS HAD A FATAL CONSEQUENCE. CONSEQUENCE. A WEEKLY TRIP TO THE [CMBREAKPOINT] GROCERY STORE COULDN'T HAVE ENDED WORSE FOR JERRY McEWEN. McEWEN. THE 54-YEAR OLD WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP WHEN POLICE SAY HE SAW ROBERT WILLIAMS STEAL A WOMAN'S PURSE. JERRY McEWEN, THE GOOD [CMBREAKPOINT] SAMARITAN, WAS FATALLY STABBED. Verna Wyatt says : "We're talking about the safety of society." VERNA WYATT HAS DEVOTED HER LIFE TO WORKING WITH CRIME VICTIMS. SHE KNOWS THE HISTORY OF ROBERT WILLIAMS... WHO HAS BEEN IN [CMBREAKPOINT] AND OUT OF TENNESSEE PRISONS SINCE 1983.Verna Wyatt says : "If we're going turn them back into society we need to be sure they're ready to go back into society, and that no one else is gonna be victimized [CMBREAKPOINT] and we're not doing that." Melissa McDonald says : "Everyone here feels remorse as human beings for what happened here." TENNESSEE'S BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE LET US REVIEW ROBERT WILLIAMS FILE. IT [CMBREAKPOINT] SHOWS THAT HE WAS FIRST PAROLED IN 1998... BUT AFTER AN ARREST, HE WENT BACK TO PRISON A YEAR LATER. HE WAS LET OUT AGAIN IN 2000... AND ONCE AGAIN HE WAS ARRESTED AND HAD HIS PAROLE REVOKED. THEN IN MAY OF THIS YEAR HE WAS LET OUT A THIRD TIME... AND NOW HE'S BEEN ARRESTED FOR MURDER. Melissa McDonald says : "I mean you just can't predict what is going to happen with anyone as hard as [CMBREAKPOINT] you might try to be right." THE BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE SAYS IT ONLY RELEASED WILLIAMS AFTER FIRST DENYING HIS REQUEST FOR PAROLE SIX TIMES. THEY ALSO SAY WILLIAMS HAD BEEN A WELL [CMBREAKPOINT] DISCIPLINED INMATE FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS PRIOR TO HIS RELEASE. BUT TONIGHT SOME WONDER, IF GOOD BEHAVIOR IS ENOUGH.Verna Wyatt says : "They are doing everything they're supposed to do. They [CMBREAKPOINT] look like they might be ready, but it's a gamble you don't know, you never know." VERNA WYATT DOES KNOW THAT JERRY McEWEN'S FAMILY WILL NEVER GET OVER THR LOSS. [CMBREAKPOINT] IT'S WHY SHE BELIEVES ROBERT WILLIAMS SHOULD STILL BE BEHIND BARS.Verna Wyatt says : "And for those people that are gonna revictimize, and that we have a pretty good idea they are, we should never let them out."[CMBREAKPOINT] ROBERT WILLIAMS WAS ON SUPERVISED PAROLE AT THE TIME OF THE MURDER. HIS GIRLFRIEND, STEPHANIE HUDSON IS ALSO AN EX-CONVICT. EX-CONVICT. TONIGHT POLICE TELL US... "THIS TIME" THEY HOPE THEY WILL STAY BEHIND BARS. BARS. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENT FOR JERRY McEWEN ARE NOW COMPLETE. COMPLETE. VISITATION FOR THE 54-YEAR OLD SOUTH [CMBREAKPOINT] NASHVILLE MAN WILL BE HELD TOMORROW AFTERNOON FROM FOUR TO EIGHT AT MOUNT OLIVET FUNERAL HOME. THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD SATURDAY AT NOON. NOON. McEWEN WAS WORKING AS A WEB DESIGNER, AND HE OPERATED THE SITE "COOL CATS [CMBREAKPOINT] DOT-COM." HE WAS ALSO A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN FOR MORE THAN 20-YEARS, AND AN AVID WIND SURFER. IN OTHER NEWS...METRO POLICE NEED YOUR HELP TONIGHT TO FIND A YOUNG MAN WHO PULLED A KNIFE [CMBREAKPOINT] ON A STORE CLERK. CLERK.SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE SHOWS THE BRAZEN ARMED ROBBERY OF THE JIFFY FOOD MART IN WEST NASHVILLE.IT HAPPENED AT ABOUT 10-30 THIS MORNING.WITNESSES [CMBREAKPOINT] SAY AGREE THE PERSON WITH A LARGE KNIFE IS A YOUNG MAN... POSSIBLY BETWEEN THE AGES OF 16 AND 22.DETECTIVES SAY NOT ONLY IS THE SUSPECT BOLD... HE [CMBREAKPOINT] MAY BE INVOLVED IN OTHER CRIMES IN THE AREA... Metro Police detective James Bledsoe says: "This same individual has been described by other people in the area, who live and work in the area. They say they believe they've seen this individual before in