Testifying in the first-degree murder trial of Willie Clark on Friday, Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall said he may have escalated a conflict with Clark the night cornerback Darrent Williams was shot.

From ESPN.com:

Marshall said the men had been throwing up gang signs and harassing a table of people that included Williams, according to The Post.

But later, Marshall said, outside the Shelter nightclub in downtown Denver, he saw the conflict had resumed, with Clark and Harris again making gang signs at Willams’ group, who were now in a rented stretch-limousine Hummer.

“This is when I got angry a little bit and my first words were, ‘God [expletive] man, I offered you guys drinks tonight to party with us.’ There was a lot of cursing and a lot of words being exchanged,” Marshall said, according to the newspaper report.
Clark pulled up his shirt slightly as if to show Marshall he was carrying a gun, the receiver said, according to The Post.

“I said, ‘Man, you got no [expletive] gun,’ ” Marshall said. “I don’t know if it was a gun or not. I assumed he didn’t have a gun because he was holding up his shirt and I didn’t see one.

“I kind of got angry at the time and probably escalated the situation, but I got angry because it was New Year’s and we were trying to have fun.”

A young man lost his life because a couple of adults couldn’t hold their egos and tempers in check. And actually, if Clark and his cronies wind up going to prison, then Williams won’t be the only one to have lost his life that night.

How sad.

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