True Crime Chronicles: A 35-year sentence will be followed by ICE detainer and depor5tation for NWA murderer
Xavier Williams was 23, a Springdale apartment tenant and a young man friends remembered as open and full of life, a music artist known around his circle as 16X, Real Deal, and X-Man.
Some who marked his death said he had gone to Watson Chapel High School in the Pine Bluff area and that he left behind people who still light candles in his name
On the afternoon of Thursday, August 17, 2017, Springdale police were called to 276 Strawberry Meadows Lane, Apartment 209, in the Strawberry Meadows complex, also described in early reports as Springdale Estates.
Officers found Williams dead inside his own unit from gunshot wounds. His body went to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory for autopsy. The apartment was not a chance encounter on a street. It was a residence, and the killing was charged as a home invasion as well as a homicide.
Anferney Amram was 18 and living in Springdale. Within a day, he and 19-year-old Albert Davis were in custody after police questioning. Amram gave a statement. He said he shot Williams several times with a 9 millimeter handgun because Williams had threatened his family. After the shooting he took the pistol apart and threw the pieces out a moving vehicle while driving through Bentonville.
Davis told investigators that he and another friend collected spent shell casings and took Williams’s cell phone to protect Amram. Those acts of cleanup turned a shooting into a case about both murder and the destruction of evidence. Police said more arrests were expected, and they were right.
Anferney Amram
Amram was charged with capital murder, tampering with physical evidence, residential burglary, discharging a firearm inside the city limits, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Davis was charged with residential burglary, tampering with evidence, and hindering apprehension. The contributing-to-delinquency count pointed to a younger person in the mix.
Junior Betero Teorea, 16, was arraigned in Washington County Circuit Court on August 28, 2017, and charged as an adult as an accomplice to capital murder. In late September 2017, additional defendants were arraigned in the same fatal shooting.Years later, in August 2021, Tracy Schuman of Springdale pleaded guilty to murder for his role in the 2017 apartment killing, becoming another man sentenced in the same case. The group around the shooting was larger than a single triggerman.
Anferney Amram
On Friday, April 19, 2019, Amram, then 20, pleaded guilty in Fayetteville to first-degree murder and aggravated residential burglary. The capital murder charge did not go to a jury. Circuit court sentenced him that day to 420 months, 35 years, on each count. The Arkansas Division of Correction booked him the same date under ADC number 172970. He had no prior prison history in the state system.
The judgment reflects concurrent time totaling 35 years, not stacked life without parole.
As of September 18, 2026, Amram is held at the Cummins Unit. He is classified C5, a restrictive custody level, with Good Time Class IV, the least favorable earning class for sentence reduction. His listed parole or transfer eligibility date is February 17, 2042.
An immigration detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was lodged against him on May 8, 2019, coded as an immigration hold. That detainer remains on his file. When his state sentence is complete, or if he ever reaches a release point the state will honor, federal authorities can take custody and seek removal.
. Thirty-five years from April 2019 runs past 2054 if served day for day, though Arkansas parole rules and good-time class can move the first review earlier. Class IV good time and C5 custody both cut against early release. The ICE detainer is a second track. A Compact migrant with a first-degree murder conviction is removable after the criminal sentence.
For the Williams family, the legal file closed in 2019 on the shooter and later on at least one co-defendant. For Amram, the file now is a prison classification sheet, a 2042 eligibility date, and a federal hold that will be waiting whenever the state is finished with him.
