A parole-violation hearing scheduled Friday for the lone man in custody in connection with the Darrent Williams slaying investigation has been postponed for two weeks.

Willie D. Clark, 23, was to have appeared before the state parole board to answer an allegation that he was not living at his grandmother's Denver home, as he had pledged to do upon being paroled July 18 from the Department of Corrections.

The hearing is rescheduled for Feb. 2.

Clark was paroled after serving a brief sentence on a guilty plea to aggravated motor vehicle theft.

"We will continue our hold on this offender for the purpose of further investigation of parole violations," said Tim Hand, assistant director of parole for the state Department of Corrections.

Clark was arrested Jan. 5 on the alleged parole violation, but has also been named a person of interest in the Williams case.

Williams, the 24-year-old cornerback for the Denver Broncos, was shot and killed New Year's morning while he and a group of friends were riding away from a Denver nightclub in a rented stretch Hummer.

No arrests have been made in the case.

Hand said the postponement, during which Clark cannot be freed on bond, was not for the purpose of buying more time for Williams case investigators to build their case against the athlete's killer or killers.

"Denver P.D. did not request a continuance," said Hand. "It was our parole officers who did that."

As for the status of the Williams case, Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said, "We're continuing moving forward. That's pretty much about it."