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August 17, 2009 in City
Police ID victim in Saturday’s homicide
Police released a description of a suspected killer Monday, two days after a man was stabbed to death in a Spokane parking lot.
William “Billy” O. Floyd, 22, died after police found him unconscious and barely breathing in a parking lot at West Indiana Avenue and North Lincoln Street about 2 a.m., according to the Spokane Police Department.
Police say Floyd and a friend fought with one man, who remains at large.
He’s described as white, 25 to 30 years old, 5-foot-11 to 6-foot-2, with short dark hair.
He was wearing prescription glasses and was last seen running eastbound on Indiana from Lincoln, on the north side of the street, according to police.
Police don’t know how the fight began and by Monday afternoon had talked to just one witness, Floyd’s friend who was also involved in the fight, said Officer Jennifer DeRuwe.
“We’ve really got to find this other guy and find out his version of the story,” DeRuwe said. “We don’t have very much” Police think he may have been injured in the fight.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Check at (509) 456-2233.
Court records show Floyd had convictions for second-degree burglary, residential burglary, theft of a firearm and second-degree arson. He was sentenced to 13 months in prison last August on the arson and second-degree burglary convictions.
A woman who answered the door at a home in the 4300 block of West Crown Place said Floyd lived there, but she declined to comment further. His 16-year-old sister, Stephanie, called him “an amazing person who was very loved.”
A memorial sign and flowers had been placed at the intersection Monday afternoon. Friends and family signed a tag board calling Floyd a “son, brother and uncle.”
“You were my only brother,” reads one message signed Big Sister Heather, “taken from me in a heartbeat.”
Floyd’s death is the seventh homicide in Spokane this year and the fourth fatal stabbing.
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tsmith19 on August 17 at 9:28 p.m.
“Court records show Floyd had convictions for second-degree burglary, residential burglary, theft of a firearm and second-degree arson. He was sentenced to 13 months in prison last August on the arson and second-degree burglary convictions.”
Obviously if the criminal justice system would have done it’s job, this a-hole would have been in prison where he belongs- not out fighting in the street during the middle of the night to get himself killed.
JFRENCH on August 17 at 9:37 p.m.
The criminal justice system can only do so much…. it’s also up to the a-hole to turn his life around. They get rehabilitated one way or another.
kdidk on August 17 at 11:46 p.m.
billy was an amazing person who was trying to get his life straightened out. ppl who hate just never got to know him. but the least you ppl could do is at least have some compation for his freinds and family not just say how what happened was right. bc if you bleive that then you should get your self checked out bc you have no sole
eagleproducer on August 18 at 10:34 a.m.
I love how the po-po provide the details about the suspect’s last known location…. I’m sure that he is still in that general vicinity.
What a bunch of buffoons.
west69001 on August 18 at 10:35 a.m.
I bet you would think dif if He was your friend or loved one,, Lily Smith
JFRENCH on August 18 at 11:09 a.m.
If he was “trying to get his life straightened out”, he should have been at home sleeping because he would have had to go to work in the morning. Not fighting people with knives in felony flats.
ripbillyfloyd2009 on August 18 at 9:22 p.m.
Ppl who did not know him really dnt know the boy everyone seems to think he was!!!!!!!!!! he was a fun loving caring guy every one who met him felt him in there hearts HE DID NOT DESERVE this at all he did not deserve to have his life taken from him in the blink of an eye and you ppl who seem to think other wise you gus have no right to judge only god can do that if someone that you were close too got stabed and died i think u guys would have a little more heart but all you guys are lookin at is his past ppl make mistakes thats why you learn from them and its life so if you guys dont have a heart for those who lost him and you think he got wat he deserved you guys have no heart or soul and i garenti u guys were not perfect but onces again A man was taken for wat reason there isnt one!!!! REST IN PEICE BILLY WE LOVE YOU
ripbillyfloyd2009 on August 18 at 11:20 p.m.
LOOK YOU FRICKIN PEOPLE NEEDA PULL YER HEADS OUTTA WHERE EVER IT IS AND THINK BEFOR YOU SAY ANYTHIN THAT WAS MY BROTHER AND HE DIDNT DO ANYTHIN WRONG!! AND HE WOULD OF STOOD UP FOR SOMEONE HE DIDNT EVEN KNO AND GIVE SOMEONE THE SHIRT OFF HIS BACK IF THEY NEEDED IT!!! ADN YOU DONT KNO ANYTHIN!!! YOU NEEDA SHOW RESPECT JUS BECUZ HE HAD A ROCKY PAST DOESNT MEAN HE WASNT TRYNA PUT HIS LIFE ON THE RITE TRACK AND DO GOOD HE WAS THE MOST AMAZING PERSON AND HE LOVED KIDS AND YOU DONT KNO HIM SO DONT JUDGE!!!! HE WAS HANGIN OUT WIT FRIENDS AND WAS GUNNA WALK HOME AND GET SOMETHIN TO EAT THEN HIS LIFE WAS TAKEN!!! THINK BECUZ THAT COULD HAVE BEEN YER BROTHER YER SON YER UNCLE YER COUSIN YER BEST FRIEND OR YER DAD!!!!! SO THINK BE FOR YOU GO ON HERE AND RITE BAD STUFF BOUT HIM!!! HE IS MY BROTHER MY BLOOD MY BESTFRIEND AND I KNO HIM BETTER THEN YOU FAKE PEOPLE THINK YOU DO!!!! AND JUS CUZ YOU KNO HIS PAST DOESNT MEAN YOU KNO HIM!!!! SO PLEASE DONT JUDGE AND SAY HORRIBLE THINGS BOUT MY BIG BROTHER I READ EVERTHIN YOU SAY AND YOU DONT KNO HOW MUCH IT HURTS THAT YOU FAKE HEARTLESS PEOPLE ARE TRYNA TO MAKE HIM SEEM LIKE A BAD GUY WHEN HE WAS MURDERED AND I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TOUCH HUG KISS OR TALK TO HIM EVER AGAIN!!!!!! RIP MY BIG BRO BRO BILLY
I LOVE AND MISS YOU SOOOO MUCH!! =::…[
LOVE YER LIL SISSY
STEPHANIE IRENE
PKinman on August 19 at 11:08 a.m.
It’s sad. It’s just sad that people would make comments like they have been leaving here in the wake of this man’s death. Stephanie, my heart goes out to you for your loss. There is not one perfect man on this earth, and let the one who is cast the first stone.
God rest Billy’s Soul! –Paul Kinman
billys_cuzin_4_life on August 21 at 6:32 a.m.
look lily smith…that was my cuzin…and 4 u JFRENCH it was not in Felony Flats, if you would listen to the news and ready the article more closely it happened in west spokane on the corner of Indiana and Lincoln…Billy was a great person he did everything for everyone. When he lived down in Grand Coulee Dam, him and i used to help an older man with stuff around the mans house. We grew up together, we did everything together, we horsebacked rode we fed our grandparent’s horses, we would walk and talk all the time. He was not an a-hole, he was a friend, a brother, a cuzin, a son, a grandson, a great-grandson, a nephew, an uncle, and most of all a hero! He was one of kind, you could not find anybody else like Billy. Just the fact that he is gone has broken my heart, cuz I have a two and a half month old son who he never got to meet, and that hurts me to death. And what really made me upset was the fact that it happened the day before my 21st b-day. I told the whole family i didn’t want to celebrate my b-day cuz I did not have my cuzin to celebrate it with, but than my mom told me that “bubs” would want me to celebrate it, so i went out just for him.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Your Cuzin Courtney aka Corky
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ And Tanner Lyle Floyd, your second cuzin you never gotta meet.
mikey120687 on August 22 at 5:24 p.m.
billy was the top dog in and out i would give anything to just talk to him again, u help raise my brothers wen i couldn’t and the to will miss u always in mine, Nick, Noah, and Travis memory’s….and never forgotten
SomeGuyfromJersey on August 22 at 9:02 p.m.
Stephanie; No one deserves to die in the street, its a horrible thing that happened. Every town has its rebellious young people. I read a little about his record and some of the charges were serious but a stint in prison can either straighten someone out or seal them as a criminal for life. Your brother should at least have had the chance to find that very thing out. God heal your wounds everyday, take care.
Yeah_right on November 01 at 5:50 p.m.
Just because somebody has a criminal history they deserve to be stabbed in cold blood? You people are disgusting! Billy was a good kid. He made a few mistakes in his life but he had a good heart. So if you get a traffic ticket should we throw bricks at you? Should we brutally beat you for making a human error? Do not judge someone or something that you know nothing about. My heart and thoughts go out to his family, especially Whetta and Kiki and Stephanie and his parents. Billy did not deserve this, nobody does. Rest in peace little Bill. You’re in God’s hands now.
misjustice on February 02 at 9:30 a.m.
I’m sorry about this young mans death, but you can always tell where a person is in the scheme of life by the friends they keep. The people that are making comments on behalf of the victim have misspelled words, no punctuation in their sentences & in general are pretty much uneducated. You don’t hear much of brawl fighting in parking lots of those that have an education & try to better themselves.
I agree with & defend jfrench. The guy should have been home sleeping & maybe seeing about going to school to better his situation. Then maybe he wouldn’t have been in the position to get into fights.