Georgia Man Convicted of Murdering Girlfriend in Fatal 2024 Shooting in New Rochelle
October 23, 2026
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Westchester County District Attorney Susan Cacace announced today that a Georgia man was convicted of murder for fatally shooting his 30-year-old girlfriend, Meisha Williams, in New Rochelle in 2024.
A Westchester County jury on Friday found the defendant, Robert Wooten, 30, of Atlanta, Georgia, guilty before Judge George Fufidio of Murder in the Second Degree, two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, all felonies.
The defendant is currently remanded at the Westchester County Jail and faces up to 25 years to life in state prison. A sentence date has not yet been scheduled.
DA Cacace said: “This conviction holds Robert Wooten accountable for callously murdering Meisha Williams, his longtime girlfriend, inside her New Rochelle home. I extend my sincere gratitude to the jury for their service, thank all law enforcement agencies involved in this investigation, and commend Assistant District Attorneys Kevin Jones and Ned McLoughlin for their zealous prosecution of this case.”
On Aug. 24, 2024, at approximately 10 a.m., the defendant shot at the victim five times with a loaded firearm during a verbal confrontation, striking her twice in the back, inside the bathroom of her Clinton Place apartment in New Rochelle.
The victim’s friends found her body on the bathroom floor and called the New Rochelle Police Department. The defendant’s car was subsequently tracked to Jamaica, Queens, where he was arrested hours later following an investigation.
The New Rochelle Police Department led the investigation, with assistance from the New York City Police Department, the FBI’s Westchester Safe Streets Task Force, the Westchester County Department of Public Safety’s Real Time Crime Center, and the Westchester County Department of Laboratories and Research.
During the trial, the defendant claimed he acted in self-defense and testified that he disposed of the murder weapon in a sewer after the shooting; the firearm was never recovered.
The case is being prosecuted by Deputy Bureau Chief Kevin Jones and Assistant District Attorney Ned McLoughlin, both of the Trials Division, with assistance from Deputy Bureau Chief Marissa Morra-Wynn.
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