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To follow up the previous post (originally posted on UCFScandal.com in January):
Hard lessons for former UCF receiver Brandon Marshall
|Sentinel Staff Writer
Excerpt regarding former UCF reciever Marshall:
Denver’s season is only two games old, but 2007 already has been a year Marshall never will forget.
A season-ending New Year’s party turned tragic, and Marshall found himself in the middle of it. At closing time in a downtown Denver club, Marshall and his cousin argued with two men who earlier had been asked to leave the club, Broncos receiver Javon Walker recently told HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
Witnesses later told police the two men flashed gang signs and accosted Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams. Later, Williams was killed in a limousine after a drive-by shooting. He died in Walker’s arms.
The unidentified suspects are at large. Police are investigating.
“It’s sad that HBO will broadcast something like that and the case hasn’t even gone to trial yet,” said Marshall, who declined to discuss details of that evening. “It’s a lot of he-said, she-said. I was asked to do the HBO interview, but I felt there was nothing for me to say.
Marshall was arrested in March on domestic violence and false imprisonment charges in a dispute with a girlfriend. He blocked her taxi cab’s exit with his car.
The summer before Marshall’s senior season at UCF, he was cited for driving with a suspended license. He left Orlando for a summer semester and went to Fort Lauderdale to work out and clear his head.
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In an interview on “Real Sports” that opened fresh wounds and maybe even a can of worms, Walker revealed that teammate Brandon Marshall was at the center of an argument that occurred during a New Year’s Eve party at a downtown Denver club.
Walker said that at closing time, Marshall and his cousin exchanged heated words with two men who had been kicked out of the club earlier that night. Witnesses said the men flashed gang signs and confronted Williams and his group after taking offense when Marshall sprayed them with champagne.
After both men tried to intervene, Walker was invited into Williams’ limo and they drove off into the night. Moments later, their stretch Hummer was sprayed with bullets, one of which pierced Williams’ neck.
Marshall, who had left the club in another vehicle, declined to comment on what Walker told HBO.