The autopsy report, per Autopsy Files, is stark as what happened that night on New Year’s Eve 2006. “Cause of death: Perforating gunshot wound of neck.” It means that the bullet tore into Darrent Williams’ neck and did major damage to an important artery. There was one small mercy that the report said — the bullet brought rapid death. Williams barely suffered. He was the only one of the passengers in that limousine who died — one other got hit in the buttocks and a ringing cell phone saved another passenger who got a lacerated scalp rather than a bullet in her head thanks to her answering the call (via Sports Illustrated). There was some speculation that the intended target was Brandon Marshall, who had been getting rowdy at the club that Williams and Javon Walker had been in.
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Williams’ death was just another statistic as far as gun deaths go. The year 2007 had just begun and there was already at least one person dead due to gunfire. There would be more that year who died from that cause, including Sean Taylor (per ESPN), another football player that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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