Denver Bronco Darrent Williams Killed...

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Just some quick clarification for everyones information.

The club they left has had several names and reputations during the past few years. It is just a block from the TV station where I worked. It used to be a real dive -- and we drank there fairly often after work. (We once found one of my directors alseep in the back seat of his car behind the place one morning) Our middle daughter goes there sometimes now since its reputation is much younger oriented these days.

The street where the shooting took place is not really what I would consider "downtown," but just West and slightly South of the business district. It is a main NW to SE artery that runs with several lanes on each side of a creek/river which runs diagonally through Denver. The areas along the creek, a 15-20 foot deep culvert with sidewalks at the bottom, are frequented by runners, bicyclists and homeless people, depending on the time of day or night. Some of the homeless sleep under the bridges that cross the culvert.

I don't think I would classify either location as particularly "ghetto,' at least in the truest sense of the word.

The area around the actual location (11th and Speer) is just South of the Denver Performing Arts complex with hi-rise condo/apartments and a park on the West side and small businesses on the East. Several years ago, a Denver TV station helicopter lost power and made a "hard landing" (read that as a barely controlled crash) in the creek just three blocks North of this location.

On a personal note, reading the initial stories were a real shock to me, not only due to the content, but because all three of the spokespersons (Jackson, Saccomano and Aiello) quoted in the first one are people I worked with. I've known a lot of people who were interviewed as spokesmen in stories, but this was the first time there were that many in the same story. I imagine that the cops know more than Sonny Jackson, the DPD spokesman and former TV Photojournalist, is saying, but they aren't going to tip their hand so early in the investigation.

The Denver Health Medical Center (formerly Denver General Hospital -- sometimes called the Denver Knife and Gun Club because it is a level one trauma center) which is a city owned facility and base for Denver Paramedics and handles most of the major trauma cases for the core city area, is only a few blocks South of the scene, so it is likely that help was quick and close. Denver Fire Headquarters and Engine House Number One is about three blocks North. The Denver Cop Shop (Police Headquarters) is a very few blocks away.

I agree with KSigKid and Jon that this probably had nothing to do with sports per se, but may well have been futrther incited by the fact that high profile sports personalities were involved.

Again, the above is for information only, and is not intended to try to add any motive for the shooting or its location.

It is very sad when a young and talented life ends so early and violently.