Promising Athlete Lived 'a Double Life'

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He was a flashy, run-and-gun high school quarterback, praised by coaches and teammates alike as a natural leader.

He was also a small-time drug dealer who tooled around North Jersey in an Audi, negotiated marijuana sales on his cellphone and came to be regarded by police as an influential leader of the Bloods street gang.

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Promising Athlete Lived 'a Double Life'

Who was Damian Williams really?

That question, which shadowed Williams following his 2005 graduation from Teaneck High School, looms larger now in the wake of his shooting death on March 19 in what police believe was a Bloods dispute in Bound Brook -- a town Williams was not known for visiting.

"A double life" is how Dennis Heck, Williams' Teaneck High School football coach, now describes his former star's existence.

That may be an understatement. An examination of Williams' criminal record as well as interviews with relatives, friends, former teammates and police paint a portrait of a young man who carefully divided his life into many separate rooms.

To some, he was the former football star who yearned to become a per...

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