A tragic Denver murder is in the national spotlight again.
On New Year's Eve 2006, Williams and five friends from his hometown of Fort Worth attempted to forget the Broncos' disappointing loss to the San Francisco 49ers at a nightclub called Safari, located near the intersection of Tenth and Broadway. They settled into the third-floor VIP section, and at the stroke of midnight, witnesses said a cousin of Brandon Marshall, one of Williams's teammates, showered everyone in the section with spray from a bottle of Moët champagne.
In the days that followed, Asmar wrote,"some of Willie Clark's fellow Tre Tre Crips gang members and drug-dealing associates pleaded with him to confess to the crime," including Vernone"Lil Thirty Ounce." On the witness stand, Edwards said that"he was making fistfuls of money selling drugs and he was afraid that the attention accompanying the first-degree murder investigation of a popular NFL football star would ruin everything.
Edwards noted that"a lot of heat was going to come down," and his supposition was confirmed by Assistant Attorney Stephanie Podolak. An investigation into the Tre Tre Crips' alleged cocaine-and-crack-trafficking operation was already underway when Williams was killed."The heat was already on them," Podolak said."They may not have known that the heat was on them, but the heat was on them.
All of these elements came together during the trial; among the most controversial pieces of evidence against Clark was an alleged confession letter that Harris, another onetime gang member who was housed in the same detention unit as Clark in 2007 and 2008, provided to the now-defunct. Clark was eventually found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for killing Williams and handed another 1,152 years for attempted murder against the other occupants of the Hummer.
Over the years that followed, Clark continued to insist that he hadn't killed Williams, and in 2015, the
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