Posted on 01/01/2007 4:34:43 AM PST by goarmy
Broncos right cornerback Darrent Williams was shot and killed this morning. After leaving a nightclub in a limousine, Williams was shot and killed near 11th and Grant in Denver. The team confirmed the death of Williams. A female passenger also was shot, according to a source familiar with Williams.
Williams was 24.
"I learned from the Denver Police Deprtment that this incident has occured," Williams' agent, Jeff Griffin said early Monday morning. "No other details have been released. I sincerely offer my condolences and feelings to his family."
Williams was the Broncos' starting right cornerback and played his final game for the team in a 26-23 overtime loss to the San Francisco 49ers that eliminated Denver from the playoffs on New Year's Eve.
Per Profootballtalk.com
POSTED 7:10 p.m. EST, January 1, 2007
WILLIAMS DIED IN JAVON WALKER'S LAP
A league source tells us that the current talk in team circles is that Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams expired in the lap of receiver Javon Walker after being shot early Monday morning in a limousine.
Williams, we're told, expired instantly. Also in the limousine were linebacker D.J. Williams and receiver Brandon Marshall. Two others who were riding in the vehicle with the Broncos players were shot, but Walker, D.J. Williams, and Marshall were not injured.
Initially, it was feared that Walker also had been shot, but it was determined that the blood on his clothing was from Williams. (We really couldn't think of a more delicate way to report that specific fact, and we continue to feel nauseous about the entire ordeal. We've heard good things about Darrent Williams from members of the media, and our thoughts are with his family.)
We're told that local police have strong leads as to the suspects, and that arrests are expected to come sooner rather than later. Apparently, the bullets were fired by a group of men with whom the Broncos players had squabbled at a New Year's Eve party hosted by one or more members of the Denver Nuggets.
Thanks. Profootballtalk.com is more of a gossip site but the detail about blood on Walker's clothes would tend to support such a story. So sad for all of them.
That is interesting. The last I heard on TV this afternoon, was that there were no leads.
He was out celebrating the loss earlier in the day.
As a Bronco fan for 45 years, may I say thank you for the sentiments, Kansas.
During the season we are intense rivals, but tragedies like this remind us of what's important, as you pointed out.
I congratulate the Chiefs for beating all odds to get into the playoffs. I believe they match up well against the Colts next week. AFC West all the way!
The whole concept of a physical"black community"is going the way of the dinosaur in many parts of the country.
Examples-East Oakland is becoming more and more Latino.West Oakland more and more white and Latino.Watts has been majority Latino for over ten years.The Fillmore in San Francisco has many white gays and yuppies and fewer and fewer blacks every year.Even Hunters Point is becoming more Asian in the past decade.
Also,many blacks are dispersing out into the suburbs.Places like Concord,Antioch,Hercules and even ritzy areas like San Ramon have fair sprinklings of black residents now.Thirty years ago those towns were almost all white.
The"ghetto across the tracks"is becoming a rarity at least here in the West.
Thanks for the update. However, anyone of us could be 'sitting in the wrong place' at some time and not know it.
We're many street battles away from a time where we can leave our front doors unlocked- as was done in the fifties/sixties.
I'm convinced the second ammendment IS our permit to carry. That we've failed to heed it, is what's brought us to this condition today. That'll all change as we re-embrace the wisdom in it's words. Woe to those who fail.
Zman...the odds were staggering...Boy, I hope we can lay a wuppin' on old Peyton.
Darrent's family remains in our prayers. Hopefully, some others in the NFL will be reminded that there is a bigger meaning to life than just football. Did I really just say that? :0)
I've been following this and it's pretty clear at this point that he sponsored a party to whom the wrong crowd was invited. It was a NY's eve and birthday party for one of the Denver Nuggets. Apparently, Williams and Javon Walker (both Broncos) put their names on the invitation, advertising they were going to be there. It was downtown in not a scuzzy place.
The was an argument involving some broncos and other party goers at the party. The broncos left in a limo. The other partygoers followed them in a white suv and unloaded 13 rounds into the limo.
Put that together and what you have is gangbangers showing up at a party for the elite of denver pro-athletes. No way a regular old party-goer to this kind of party gets juiced up and does a drive by because of an argument. That's gang style.
Elite pro-athlete parties are not open to the public; so the gangbangers weren't party crashers.
Williams said he turned his back on gangs in his mid-teens when he started to turn to the Lord. I credit that--he seemed like a pretty solid guy as pro-footballers at that age go.
But a lot of folks who have been near the street have a really hard time giving it up completely. So they will socialize with the gangsters, thinking that's OK. Maybe the bangers were his friends. Maybe someone else's at the party. Regardless, if you spend too much time around gangbangers, bad stuff eventually happens.
The trial of the perps is going to tear the pro-athlete community in this town up. It won't be good pr when the public finds out who was attending William's party.
Prayers for his two kids and his folks.
Javon Walker was definately in the car. The cops initially thought he was hit because he had Williams blood all over him. Williams died in his lap. Apparently, they were playing music so loudly, noone even knew they were being shot at until Williams listed over.
A woman in the car also took a round in back of her head and didn't know she was wounded until she got out of the car and one of the officers noticed the bleeding. Apparently, she's going to be OK. They're trying to decide whether to take the bullet out.
Walker is claiming he doesn't remember anything of the evening. Maybe not. Or maybe he is scared to death of id'ing the perps. Regardless, I have on good authority that the cops know who they are looking for and it's just a matter of time.
Nope. See my earlier post on this page. It's pretty clear at this point that it was the result of an argument between Williams group and some gangbangers that had been invited to a party Williams, Walker and others were throwing for another denver area pro-athlete.
Whose girlfriend was he with?
That's funny, Those were my father's famous lines when I was younger (much younger, lol). Certain sayings just stick, don't they?
I thought it was stupid at the time. Later on I learned the hard way just how right my mom was.
Smart lady my mom. I think I'll call her and remind her of that. She'll enjoy that, I think.
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I feel sorry for his family but what you posted is what I remember reading about Williams. IMHO he was in the wrong place at the wrong time because bullets shot like that hit someone randomly. Does make me wonder about the people that were invited to this party and why invite gang members would be my first question.
Someone better be looking into the betting angle because it wouldn't surprise me at all with the way that game was played at the end.
It is a shame when anyone loses their life because of senseless shootings. I don't think some cities are tough enough on these drive-by shooting scum. They need to round up gang members and judges need to be harder on them. Always shocks me when some of them have a high priced lawyer to get them out and wonder who is ultimately behind the gang violence.
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