The Rocky Mountain News, thanks to a shady source willing to snitch in exchange for federal protection, intercepted a letter written by one Willie D. Clark, a 26-year-old gang member currently serving time for parole violations.

In the letter, Clark says Clark says he is worried someone who saw him shoot "D-Will" - a nickname for Williams - will start talking to police about the killing.

"(The person) seen me with the gun and shoot out the whip," the letter states.

The Denver feds have done the handwriting analysis, corroborated with others on the veracity of the letter, and appear very confident that Willie D. Clark will be charged with murdering Darrent Williams. Finally.

Letter implicates Broncos' killer [Rocky Mountain News]

Here's the updated photo of Javon Walker post-limo shooting. Obviously, this sheds a little bit of light that Walker was in the vacinity of Williams as he died.

So What Was Javon Walker's Involvment? [Deadspin]

Williams' mother also seeks to speak with Walker about the incident to find out what happened and offer some clues as to what prompted the incident.

Darrent Williams Killed [SI.com]

Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting early Monday, his limousine sprayed with bullets in downtown Denver. Team spokesman Jim Saccomano said police called him about 3 a.m. from the scene and told him three people had been shot, and the 24-year-old Williams had been killed. His death came hours after the Denver Broncos were eliminated from the playoff race.

A little after 2 a.m., a white Hummer limousine was fired on from a vehicle that pulled up along its side, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. As many as a dozen bullet holes were visible on the driver's side of the vehicle. One window was blown out and four others had bullet holes.

In a haunting bit of irony, DenverPost.com republished an interview with Williams that ran Dec. 3, in which he describes his rough upbringing and how he overcame that to become part of one of the most dominating cornerback tandems in football with Champ Bailey:

Williams: Probably from the time I was 12 until I was 17. I was hanging around the wrong people. I was hanging around gang members. The local Crips had people I called friends... I wasn't really a Crip, or part of any gang, but some people might have thought I was because I was affiliated with some of them.

Denver Post: What pushed you away from that life?

Williams: I went to church one day and the preacher said something about praying every night. He said: "I know a lot of you go home and get drunk or whatever. But even if you don't have a simple life, try every day to pray to the Lord. Get a relationship with Him." And I started doing that. I started praying every day at my home, and even though I wasn't going to church all the time, I started believing more, and I think that's what stopped me from going down the wrong road.

Preacher Put Williams on Right Path [DenverPost]
More: Broncos Williams Shot to Death in Colo. [HoustonChronicle
Video Report About Shooting [DenverPost/AP Video]