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.
The poor man was probably just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Having said that...
It's funny how athletes who are home reading their daughter a bedtime story and then watching a movie never have this happen to them.