William Parrott pleads guilty in Wanda Alston murder
William Parrott, Jr., the suspect in the death of Wanda Alston (pictured), a member of Washington D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams' cabinet, entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder charges yesterday. Parrott was armed with a knife when he attacked Alston, the mayor's special assistant for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender affairs. "I am ashamed and sorry," Parrott told District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Retchin. He went on to say that he killed Alston after a "binge of smoking crack cocaine, marijuana and alcohol." He said he took a knife from his kitchen, went two doors down to Alston's Northeast Washington home, and stabbed her. Alston, he said, had "never done anything to me."
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