The first homicide of this year came on New Year's Day, when police reported that 61-year-old Sharon Williams had been killed after Alan Lorenzo Floyd, 59, barricaded the door to her home and then set it on fire. Police identified Floyd as their latest "Public Enemy No. 1," and he was later arrested. In the second homicide of the year, police also made arrests — charging Christopher Wilkins, 32, and Angel Fury, 27, in the beating death of 48-year-old Edward Yesaitis Jr. at the Deluxe Plaza Motel on Pulaski Highway.