SEATTLE, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Prosecutors said there was no connection between an attack on Seattle Seahawks player Ken Hamlin and the killing of a participant in the brawl.
Terry Milam was shot dead a few hours after Hamlin was injured in the melee two years ago in Pioneer Square. While the killing was at one time believed to be related, prosecutors now say that Milam was killed by a friend of a man he had shot several days earlier, The Seattle Times reported.
Omar Ali Norman, now in prison serving a sentence for a 2006 shooting, has been charged with second-degree murder.
Investigators said that several hours after the melee, Milam was with a group of gang members and boasted about shooting Raphael “Rollo” Justice IV. He didn't realize that his companions included a cousin and a friend of the man he had wounded.
At the time, Milam was living in a federal halfway house and wasn't supposed to be out on the street at night.
Hamlin’s skull was fractured with a metal street sign during the fight. He missed the rest of the season with the Seahawks. He joined the Dallas Cowboys this year.
