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CBS 12 News published July 17, 2025: Florida mom reports ex for stalking, later shot dead.
Shantay Butts did everything survivors are told to do.
The 34-year-old Belle Glade mother of four reported her ex-boyfriend for stalking. She filed police reports. She documented the harassment on video. She even fled her home in fear.
And just six days after deputies issued a warrant for his arrest — she was dead.
CBS12 News, Florida local
written by Katie Bente
Thursday July 17, 2025
BELLE GLADE, Florida — Shantay Butts did everything survivors are told to do.
The 34-year-old Belle Glade mother of four reported her ex-boyfriend for stalking. She filed police reports. She documented the harassment on video. She even fled her home in fear.
And just six days after deputies issued a warrant for his arrest — she was dead.
According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO), the man accused of killing her — 45-year-old Little Mack Williams — is her ex-boyfriend and the father of her children.
Deputies say Williams broke into Butts’ Belle Glade home on July 11 and shot her multiple times. Her son called 911. Her current boyfriend, who was also shot, survived the attack.
Williams is now charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
But some advocates say the red flags were clear — and the system failed to protect her.
A history of reports
Court records show Butts had reported Williams numerous times over the past year for harassment, stalking, and domestic violence.
In July 2024, he was arrested after choking her and kicking her repeatedly during a break-in. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 157 days in jail. A no-contact order was issued.
But records show Williams continued showing up at her home. Butts told deputies he stole her phone, damaged her belongings, and made threats. Just days before her death, she told investigators he asked if she was “missing her firearm” — shortly after her gun had been reported stolen from her vehicle.
In a Facebook video posted shortly before her death, Butts appears to film Williams outside her workplace.
“Please leave. Please leave,” she says in the video. “I am not okay with this. Please leave my job. I have to go.”
On July 2, she reported that Williams broke into her home and stole a bottle of soda. Two days later, she said he returned and chased her to her car, yelling threats. She fled the scene in fear.
Then, on July 5, Butts filed a report after Williams returned to her home more than 20 times in a single night — incidents captured on her Blink doorbell camera. Deputies issued a warrant that day for aggravated stalking.
Six days later, she was found dead.
Williams’ criminal history spans more than a decade and includes multiple arrests across Palm Beach County for domestic violence-related offenses.
In 2014, he was charged with felony battery, strangulation and false imprisonment after an ex-girlfriend reported that he assaulted and raped her. Medical records documented swelling, bruising and a hematoma. He pleaded guilty to felony battery and served 36 days in jail.
In 2018, another ex-girlfriend accused Williams of stalking and trespassing at her home. He was convicted of trespassing and served 59 days.
In 2023, a different woman told deputies that Williams struck her in the head with an unknown object. He pleaded guilty to domestic battery and was sentenced to two days in jail.
A similar situation
Butts’ death mirrors a 2023 case in Boynton Beach, where a 34-year-old woman was gunned down in the parking lot of her apartment building less than an hour after reporting her ex-boyfriend to police.
That man, Robens Cesar, later confessed to the killing — telling detectives that her filing a police report was “the final straw.”
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