A man who abducted, pistol-whipped and robbed an expectant mother in Vicksburg was convicted by a Warren County Circuit Court trial jury.

Nearly one year ago, 26-year-old Madalisoh Hargrove, who was 6 months pregnant, was leaving her home on the way to a birthday party when she was hit on the head with a gun, robbed and then forced to drive away with the attacker and her 3-year-old son in the back seat.

Jurors found Quinton Williams, 21, 3544 Wisconsin Ave., guilty Thursday of two counts of kidnapping, one count of armed robbery and another count for felony possession of a weapon.

Six days after the attack outside her Van Guard Apartments home on Lake Hill Drive and again during testimony in a two-day trial this week, Hargrove said that once the attacker was in her car on March 31, he threatened her several times and pointed the gun at her son, Kisu. She said he finally left her car a few blocks from her home, running toward Bazinsky Field near South Frontage Road.

Williams will be sentenced by Warren County Circuit Judge Frank Vollor on April 11 and faces a maximum of 60 years in prison for both kidnapping convictions, anything less than a life sentence for the armed robbery and a possible addition of three years for the weapon conviction.

“I am ecstatic,” Hargrove said after the verdict was returned Thursday. “It’s such a relief. I cannot say enough about the DA’s office and all that they’ve done for me.”

District Attorney Ricky Smith, who prosecuted the case, directed his appreciation toward the jury of seven men and five women who deliberated for three hours.

“They definitely made the right decision,” Smith said. “This was a dangerous man to the community and I’m grateful for the time they took to make this decision.”

In addition, Williams, who was convicted in 2005 of larceny of a motor vehicle, still faces trial on an indictment for an armed robbery on Feb. 9 in the 200 block of Bazinsky Road, a couple of blocks away from where Hargrove was attacked. Williams was believed to be living in that area at the time.

Smith said that case will be dealt with after the sentencing in the Hargrove case.

A native of Zambia who lived most of her life in England, Hargrove had lived in Vicksburg for about 1 1/2 years when the attack occurred.

On the day of the attack, she drove herself to River Region Medical Center, where she had staples put in her forehead to close the wound left by the gun.

Vicksburg police went to the hospital that day, but Hargrove did not give a statement, explaining that she was still hysterical. It was six days later that she gave police details.

Then, in September, police received a tip that Williams might be responsible. Investigators showed a picture of the suspect to Hargrove, and she told police he was her attacker.

Police and the Warren County Sheriff’s Department worked together to find and arrest Williams, who was wanted by the Mississippi Department of Corrections for violation of his probation.

A three-day search ended Sept. 28, when Williams was found by the two agencies late in the morning, hiding in a garbage bag under a house on Mount Alban Road. He was charged two days later.

Defense attorneys Branan Southerland and Thomas Setzer argued there was no evidence, other than Hargrove’s claims, to link Williams to the crime.

At the time of his September arrest, Williams was also a person of interest in two residential break-ins and two rapes of elderly widows in the same Bazinsky Road area. One of the rapes occurred in 2005 and one Sept. 21. Officials, however, discovered Williams was in jail at the time of the 2005 rape, and no arrest has been made the September attack.

Vicksburg Police Lt. Bobby Stewart has said the Oct. 23 arrest of a 17-year-old in a similar crime in Gloster is under review by local authorities.

Stewart said police are waiting on DNA evidence in that case.