In the days and weeks following teammate Darrent Williams' murder, Broncos wide receiver Javon Walker said he feared for his own life and briefly considered not coming back to Denver as he grieved over his friend's death.



Walker, in an interview with HBO's Real Sports to be aired Tuesday night, made his first public comments about bloody early-morning hours of New Year's Day. The interview was conducted earlier this offseason in Arizona.



Walker has not recounted the events before and after Williams' murder to local media outlets. Thus far in training camp Walker has steadfastly said he would only answer "football questions.''



In the HBO interview Walker also describes the confrontation inside, and later outside on the sidewalk in front of, a Denver nightclub, involving at least two men and Broncos wide receiver Brandon Marshall as well as Marshall's cousin, that he says led to the shooting.

"I kind of got between them... I was like 'hey man don't worry about it, let's go, let's go','' Walker said in the interview. "And then I went back by Darrent Williams and was kind of looking around to see what was going to happen next and that was when Darrent was like 'hey man, ride with me'.''



Williams was then killed a short time later when he was shot in the neck as he, Walker and a group of Williams' friends from Fort Worth, Texas, rode in a limousine away from the nightclub. Walker describes initially how Williams had slumped over into Walker's lap and how Walker had tried to simply push him away thinking nothing was wrong.

"And at the time I was like playing with the music and I took this hand and I said 'quit playing man, quit playing.' You know joking around and when I did like this (he waves his arm in the video), like lifted him, I had blood all over me. That's when you heard all the shots.

"So I grabbed his neck and after I grabbed his neck -- obviously he didn’t have no words -- I had him kind of like close to me, blood was shooting out, I was trying to hold it. All I remember at that point in time he was just looking up at me. And I was just like 'I got you D, I got you D, I got you D'.''



Walker also goes on in the interview to say it was too painful for him to go to Williams' funeral and that in the weeks following the shooting he feared that those involved may try to "finish everybody in that limo.''



Walker adds that he kept the bloody clothes he was wearing the night of the murder, that he didn't initially want to return to the Broncos and also uses the word "coward'' to describe those involved in the murder.

"Whoever did it, you know, coward and scared, just coward and scared to sneak up on somebody and shoot at them? You know if you're going to face it like a man and want to do something that a grown man would do, why not do it to their face?'' Walker said.

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