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09-05-2008, 08:17 AM
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/sep/05/woman-links-suspect-to-suv-in-bronco-killing/
Woman links suspect to SUV in Bronco killing
By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Originally published 12:05 a.m., September 5, 2008
Updated 03:13 a.m., September 5, 2008
Denver police detectives Tim Kelley, left, and Bryan Gordon place evidence markers near bullet holes on the Hummer limousine Broncos player Darrent Williams was riding in when he was shot.
Garcia, above, says she loaned SUV used in slaying to Willie Clark, below.
Garcia, above, says she loaned SUV used in slaying to Willie Clark, below.
The suspect vehicle in the Williams shooting was found near East 38th Avenue and Himalaya Road on Jan. 4.
What is this?
A woman says she loaned the SUV used in the murder of Denver Broncos player Darrent Williams to one of the suspects hours before it was used in the killing.
In a declaration filed in federal court, the woman, Veronica Garcia, said she traded trucks that night with Willie Clark, one of four suspects in the unsolved murder.
The truck Garcia gave Clark was the white Chevy Tahoe from which the shots were fired that killed Williams, two sources close to the case said Thursday.
Clark, 26, repeatedly has said he was not involved in the crime, and no charges have been filed.
But Garcia's statement could put the suspected gang member in possession of the SUV, which was found spray-painted and abandoned in northeast Denver three days after the shooting.
Clark's attorney could not be reached for comment.
Garcia, 28, is the former girlfriend of suspected gang leader Brian Hicks.
Prosecutors allege that after Hicks was arrested on a drug charge in November 2006, Garcia helped run his drug business - a charge Garcia's family and attorney deny. Hicks also allowed Garcia to use his Chevy Tahoe, the sources said.
Garcia's declaration, filed as part of a motion for bail in her own drug case, doesn't explain why she traded vehicles with Clark. But she says she did it "on the night the Bronco player was killed." Williams, 24, was shot to death early on the morning of Jan. 1, 2007, after celebrating New Year's Eve at a Denver nightclub.
Authorities say he was at the club with other Broncos and Denver Nuggets players when members of the group got into an argument with a group of suspected gang members.
The disagreement spilled outside, where Williams and others got into a Hummer limousine Williams had rented for the night. As the limo drove near Speer Boulevard and 11th Avenue, someone fired shots from the Chevy Tahoe, police said. Williams died at the scene.
Authorities suspect there were as many as four men in the Tahoe at the time. All of the suspects are in jail on drug charges, authorities have said.
Woman links suspect to SUV in Bronco killing
By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Originally published 12:05 a.m., September 5, 2008
Updated 03:13 a.m., September 5, 2008
Denver police detectives Tim Kelley, left, and Bryan Gordon place evidence markers near bullet holes on the Hummer limousine Broncos player Darrent Williams was riding in when he was shot.
Garcia, above, says she loaned SUV used in slaying to Willie Clark, below.
Garcia, above, says she loaned SUV used in slaying to Willie Clark, below.
The suspect vehicle in the Williams shooting was found near East 38th Avenue and Himalaya Road on Jan. 4.
What is this?
A woman says she loaned the SUV used in the murder of Denver Broncos player Darrent Williams to one of the suspects hours before it was used in the killing.
In a declaration filed in federal court, the woman, Veronica Garcia, said she traded trucks that night with Willie Clark, one of four suspects in the unsolved murder.
The truck Garcia gave Clark was the white Chevy Tahoe from which the shots were fired that killed Williams, two sources close to the case said Thursday.
Clark, 26, repeatedly has said he was not involved in the crime, and no charges have been filed.
But Garcia's statement could put the suspected gang member in possession of the SUV, which was found spray-painted and abandoned in northeast Denver three days after the shooting.
Clark's attorney could not be reached for comment.
Garcia, 28, is the former girlfriend of suspected gang leader Brian Hicks.
Prosecutors allege that after Hicks was arrested on a drug charge in November 2006, Garcia helped run his drug business - a charge Garcia's family and attorney deny. Hicks also allowed Garcia to use his Chevy Tahoe, the sources said.
Garcia's declaration, filed as part of a motion for bail in her own drug case, doesn't explain why she traded vehicles with Clark. But she says she did it "on the night the Bronco player was killed." Williams, 24, was shot to death early on the morning of Jan. 1, 2007, after celebrating New Year's Eve at a Denver nightclub.
Authorities say he was at the club with other Broncos and Denver Nuggets players when members of the group got into an argument with a group of suspected gang members.
The disagreement spilled outside, where Williams and others got into a Hummer limousine Williams had rented for the night. As the limo drove near Speer Boulevard and 11th Avenue, someone fired shots from the Chevy Tahoe, police said. Williams died at the scene.
Authorities suspect there were as many as four men in the Tahoe at the time. All of the suspects are in jail on drug charges, authorities have said.