Man Offers His C4 Corvette as Reward for Information Regarding His Brother’s Murder
After ten years, the case has turned cold, prompting the man’s family to give up its beloved C4 Corvette.
Losing a family member is never anything less than gut-wrenching, but we can’t even begin to imagine the pain Dennis Gilliam‘s family is going through. That’s because the young man was murdered way back in September of 2011, and to date, the killer has still not been identified. Thus, his brother, Anthony Gilliam, is offering up his beloved C4 Corvette, along with $10,000, to anyone who can provide information that might lead to an arrest.
“When I talk about it, I start crying,” Gilliam’s mother, Mattie Williams, told WRIC News. “It’s been like a sore in my stomach, like a sore here that won’t get well. People don’t know the tears I have shed. It hurts so. I thought by now they would have done something because I talked to so many detectives. I have been downtown talking to (District Attorney General) Amy Weirich.”
Gilliam was a handyman by trade who got into a fight with this stepdaughter’s boyfriend outside of his home the night of his murder. He reportedly went to sleep that night and was never heard from again, as police found him the next morning in his bed with a single gunshot wound. Police arrested his stepdaughter’s boyfriend but he was only charged with assault as there simply wasn’t enough evidence for a murder conviction, despite multiple confessions and witness statements.
At this point, a decade later, the family’s frustration is certainly understandable. “Nothing has been done on the murder case,” Williams said. “It just sits there and sits there. They finally put it over in cold case. It’s been in cold case ever since. Now I need to put some fire under it.” That fire, of course, includes both a monetary reward and Gilliam’s brother’s beloved C4 Corvette.
“That is actually a classic,” Gilliam said. “Only has 76,000 miles on it. I will give it to the person. Plus my family is putting up $10,000 and the reward is going up.” For now, the District Attorney’s office is saying that the case can be reopened if additional evidence turns up. For the sake of this suffering family, we certainly hope that happens soon.
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