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December turned Denver into a giant snow globe, sealed off and insulated from the rest of the world — but with a whole lotta shaking going on.
Especially at the corner of 11th and Speer Boulevard, where Bronco Darrent Williams was shot dead early New Year’s Day. He was in a stretch Hummer limo with other people who’d been partying at Shelter, the nightclub on Broadway where Williams and “some of your favorite Nuggets and Broncos” — including Tatum Bell, D.J. Williams and Brandon Marshall, as well as J.R. Smith and DerMarr Johnson — had been the hosts of the third annual Safari New Year’s Eve party. “Guaranteed to have a good time,” promised the e-mail invite from the promoters, 3DEEP Productions, at “one of the hottest clubs in Denver history.”
They had no idea how hot it could get.
3DEEP is a partnership between Francois Baptiste and Alvin LaCabe. If that last fellow’s name sounds familiar, it should: His father is Alvin LaCabe, Denver’s Manager of Safety, the position that oversees the Denver Police Department — which is very busy right now trying to solve the murder of Darrent Williams. — Patricia Calhoun
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