Self-Defense or Murder? The Stillwater Bail Bonds Office Shooting
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
A bail bondsman in Stillwater, Oklahoma shoots her own client in the back as he tries to escape through a window. She claims self-defense. He's unarmed. A jury decides her fate in less time than it takes to watch a movie. This case raises questions about the power we give to private citizens with badges and guns, and what happens when fear becomes the ultimate legal defense. Let's talk about Chasity Carey, Brandon Williams, and a shooting that divided a community.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to 10-minute murder. |
| 0:08.0 | August 9th, 2017, Stillwater, Oklahoma. |
| 0:12.0 | A man walks into a bail bond's office thinking he's there to talk about selling his car. |
| 0:17.0 | Minutes later, he's trying to climb out of a window, trying to escape. |
| 0:21.6 | Then a gunshot. |
| 0:22.6 | He falls to the pavement outside, dying from a bullet wound to his back. |
| 0:27.6 | The person who pulled the trigger? |
| 0:29.6 | His own bail bondsman. |
| 0:31.6 | And she walked away, a free woman. So let's talk about what happened in Stillwater, Oklahoma on a summer day in 2017, |
| 1:02.3 | because this case is one of those stories that makes you wonder about the system we've built |
| 1:06.2 | and who we trust with power. |
| 1:09.3 | Brandon James Williams was 38 years old. |
| 1:11.9 | He'd gotten into some legal trouble in late July 2017. |
| 1:16.3 | Police arrested him for three counts of second-degree burglary and possession of marijuana. |
| 1:21.9 | The burglaries were at a local restaurant in Stillwater, |
| 1:25.2 | Freddie Paul's restaurant, Curley's old-fashioned hamburgers, and Palomino's |
| 1:29.5 | Mexican restaurant. He needed to get out of jail while he waited for these court dates, so he turned |
| 1:34.5 | to Chasity Don Carey's company, signature bail bonds. Carrie posted a $35,000 bond for Brandon on July 31st. |
| 1:43.7 | That's how the bail system works. You pay someone to guarantee |
| 1:46.7 | you'll show up to court, and Brandon owed Carrie about $3,500 for doing that. If you don't show up, |
| 1:53.0 | the bondsman comes to get you. And in Oklahoma, bail bondsmen have some pretty serious authority |
| 1:58.4 | to do that. Chasity Carey was 41 years old, |
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