Crime & Safety

Sharon Anderson-Norfus Killer William Hammons To Be Sentenced Monday

Beachwood Place Mall Saks Fifth Avenue employee killed in her Shaker Heights home in May 2012

The man who pleaded guilty to strangling Shaker Heights woman Sharon Anderson-Norfus last year will be sentenced Monday.

William Hammons, 22, of Maple Heights, broke into Anderson-Norfus' Warrensville-Center Road apartment May 4, 2012 and sexually assaulted her and strangled her to death. 

He pleaded guilty last month to aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, two counts of kidnapping, rape, aggravated robbery, petty theft, misuse of a credit card, tampering with evidence and having weapons while under disability.

Anderson-Norfus worked at the Beachwood Place Mall.


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