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R.I.P. Darent Williams

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Mon Jan 01, 2007 at 02:52:09 PM EST
Tags: Darrent Williams (all tags)
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Denver Bronco cornerback Darrent Williams was gunned down at 2:00 a.m. last night in a drive-by shooting at 10th/11th Ave. and Speer Blvd. in Denver.

The Fort Worth, Texas native, according to team officials, was shot in what police had informed the team was a drive-by shooting. Williams was in a Humvee limousine with several others when it was hit with several bullets fired from another vehicle shortly after 2 a.m. Monday morning. Williams was one of three people in the limousine who were shot. All three, including Williams, were taken to hospitals.

The execution-style murder may have resulted from an altercation at a nightclub earlier in the evening. Another Bronco player may have been in the vehicle. As of this writing, no one has been arrested but suspects have been identified.

Colorado law mandates life without parole for first degree murder. Why don’t people think about consequences before they act? Whoever killed Williams will have decades in a maximum security prison to ponder consequences soon enough. He just threw his life away.

Williams was 24 years old. He leaves behind two young children in Texas. He was too young to die.

R.I.P. Darrent Williams.

(Cross posted at 5280.com)

Update: Denver police have released this information, according to 9news.com.

Williams was killed in an early morning shooting after someone with a gun pulled up alongside the white Hummer stretch limousine he and wide receiver Javon Walker were riding in and fired multiple shots.

Police say 16 people were in the stretched Hummer at the time of the shooting, including Williams and Walker. Authorities say Walker was not shot.

....Authorities say they are searching for a white GM model car, either a Suburban or a Tahoe with dark tinted windows. Anyone with any information regarding the incident should call Denver Police.

It's not clear the nightclub incident was a factor in the shooting. Darrent's group had been at Club Safari earlier in the evening. But now police say the argument occurred at a bar n