MAN GUNNED DOWN AT RESEDA APARTMENT WILLIAMS WAS MENTOR TO VALLEY KIDS.Byline: DANA BARTHOLOMEW Staff Writer RESEDA - He helped neighbors, guided at-risk teens and coached two youth football and basketball teams to San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. championships. So family and friends were stunned to learn Gary Gault n. 1. (Geol.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period. Williams was shot to death this week outside his Reseda apartment. The 38-year-old coach hadn't an enemy in the world, they said. Except one, seen before noon Tuesday by a neighbor through an apartment-door peephole, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the apartment manager, who didn't want to be identified. "What are you going to do, shoot me now?" Williams asked his assailant after a brief scuffle by the second-story elevator, the neighbor told the manager. They were Williams' last words Last words are a person's final words before death. For a list of well known last words, see or use the link at right. Last words may refer to:
Police found him dead at the scene with several gunshot wounds to his upper body. The suspect was described by witnesses as a 5-foot-10 black man, 28 to 30 years old, weighing between 160 and 170 pounds, with a shaved head and wearing a blue shirt. He was last seen running from the locked garden apartments at 6210 Reseda Blvd. The motive for the killing is unknown, police said. No suspects have been identified. "We're accepting anybody's help right now. We don't have anything to go on," said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police Detective Brad Roberts For the drummer in the band GWAR, see . Brad Roberts (born Bradley Kenneth Roberts, January 10 1964, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is the lead singer and guitarist for the Canadian folk-rock band Crash Test Dummies. of the West Valley Homicide Unit. "It's a bit of a mystery right now." Williams, a personal trainer personal trainer person n → (persönlicher) Fitnesstrainer m, (persönliche) Fitnesstrainerin f and artist, served as an assistant coach for the Reseda Buccaneers Buccaneers can refer to:
For two years running, he led the Buccaneers to Valley championships. This year, his Wildcat All-Stars won the Valley regional championship. He drove boys to and from practices and games, coaches said. He sponsored kids out of his own pocket. He even went to other parts of Los Angeles to pick up at-risk kids who wanted to play on his teams. "All the kids wanted to be around him," said Michael Walton, head coach for the Buccaneers and Wildcats. "He prodded the kids in a good way. When kids were going down the wrong path, he would bring them into football, into basketball and track and try to keep them off the street." "He went overboard for these kids," added Reseda Buccaneers President Saul Martinez. "He'd do anything for anybody. This is a big blow to the community, a big blow. There's no other guy like him." On Wednesday, family and friends gathered at a makeshift shrine of flowers and candles placed outside his apartment building. A girlfriend cried as she recited the 23rd Psalm. Neighbors talked of the gentle man who carried their groceries, greeted them in the hall and paid for personal needs. "When my husband had to go to the hospital and I didn't have the money for cab fare, he just gave me the money," said Norma Tate, 65, who lived down the hall. "He just said, `Here's the money."' Friends and family spoke of the handsome jokester with the pencil mustache and faint goatee, always a favorite with the ladies. On Wednesday, the graduate of Sequoia Middle School and Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] High would have celebrated the birthday of his mom, Renee Hutchinson of Reseda. He is also survived by his father, Gary Williams For the wrestler with the same name, see . Gary B. Williams (born March 4, 1945 in Collingswood, New Jersey, United States) is the current head coach of the University of Maryland's Men's basketball team. of Los Angeles; four sisters, Sharrell Williams of Reseda, Raashaar Williams, Yoshiko Williams and Heather Hutchinson; and two nieces and three nephews he helped raise. "He just loved kids," said Sharrell Williams, 39, wiping away tears. "Always driving somewhere with kids, always had somebody's kids in his car. He raised my kids; he was their father. "There was never a bad word (said) about my brother. Not one. He was never in a gang. He was never in any trouble as a kid. Never had a police record, was never arrested. I would like anybody who saw this, anybody, to call the police station so that my brother's death won't go unavenged." Anyone with information can call the West Valley Homicide Unit at (818) 374-7721 or (877) LAWFULL. dana.bartholomew(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3730 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) WILLIAMS |
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