DJ Megatron suspect worked cleanup in Supreme Court building after shooting, sources say

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Staten Island Advance/Michael OatesWilliam Williams is escorted out of the 120 Police Precinct stationhouse on April 7.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- William (Billy) Williams, one of the accused killers of DJ Megatron, spent his last night of freedom doing cleanup work inside the state Supreme Court building, St. George, as part of a supervised-release program for parolees and other lawbreakers, the Advance has learned.
Williams, 21, indicted along with Richard Cromwell, 20, in the shooting of the hip hop DJ, was part of a state Division of Parole program under which parolees and petty criminals sentenced to community service do nighttime waxing, mopping and sweeping work in the courthouse, Borough Hall and at 130 Stuyvesant Pl.
Williams was part of the Parole program after being released from state prison in December after serving 30 months for burglary. The building at 130 Stuyvesant is home to the borough district attorney’s office that is prosecuting the case against Williams and Cromwell.
Sources told the Advance that Williams, a Clifton resident, worked in Supreme Court, the building where he could stand trial for murder, on the night of April 5. He was arrested the next morning.
Williams last worked with a crew inside 130 Stuyvesant, waxing floors, on March 23, four days before the murder of DJ Megatron, whose real name was Corey McGriff.
Williams’ involvement in the Parole program has led GOP D.A. Daniel Donovan to ask the city Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), which manages the three facilities, to bar those involved with the program from working anywhere in his building.
"I’ve asked DCAS to stop assigning parolees to work in this building, and they’ve agreed," Donovan said. "Although the participants in this program were only assigned to limited areas of this building, working after-hours and under close supervision, we had many concerns about security and the confidentiality of our case files. The fact that one of those participants was a violent felon who is now facing murder charges certainly lends credence to our concerns."
Those working in the program were always prohibited from working on the actual floors where the D.A.’s offices and staff are located.
The Parole Division and DCAS did not return a phone call seeking comment.
A law enforcement source wasn’t surprised that Williams continued to show up for his assignment even after allegedly taking part in the Megatron homicide.
"If he fled, he figured that that would put him on the radar," the source said. "He probably felt he was safest if he kept showing up for work."