His brother was head-shot in a burst of bullets: The new basketball player of "Partizan NIS" Belgrade has a tragic life story!

He was raised in a notorious hood full of violence, criminal, drugs, where you gambled with your life every day. Unfortunately, his brother died there tragically, and Darrell Williams never forgot him and he plays basketball in his honor

Darrell Williams is supposed to be a big team reinforcement for the "Partizan NIS" Belgrade and the coach Aleksandar Dzikić who became the new coach after Petar Božić left the club.

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Williams has a tough life story, connected not just with college situation where had to face rape charges, but also with his difficult childhood life, where everything snapped when his older brother was killed.

A lot before he was charged with a sexual assault, the biggest concern in Darrell William's life was how to outlive his early childhood in one of the most notorious parts of Chicago - so called Robert Taylor's Houses in the Brownsville.

The buildings were erected in 1962 by the project of Robert Taylor, and were named after him.

There were 28 concrete buildings, 16 floors each, with poverty and high criminal rate creating a creepy picture which turned this neighborhood into a notorious one where you gambled with your life almost every day.

It was the so-called vertical ghetto in which 96% of the people living were the poorest African-Americans.

The neighborhood was originally planned for 11.000 inhabitants but there were more than 27.000 people living.

Many inhabitants had family members in jail, and this part of Chicago quickly turned into the lair of violence, criminals, and drug dealers as well as gangs who were fighting among each other on the street.

Darrell lived with his family in those difficult conditions.

His mother Alice, himself, his older brother Derrick, younger brother Pierre and sister Alicia were living in a two-bedroom-apartment.

His mother had to work two jobs to support her family because their father was not present in their lives, never married their mother, nor ever appeared in the house.

Darrell William's brother had a major role in Darrell's life.

He would not let his brother live a life like other African-Americans from their neighborhood, and he told him to stand against criminal, and drugs, but to immerse himself into sports and education.

That is how Darrell started playing basketball for his high-school team, and Derrick moved from Chicago into Milwaukee to run away from the violence and start a new life.

However, when he came back to Chicago in 2009 to visit their grandmother, Derrick was killed in front of the barbecue shop.

While going towards the shop, the attacker started firing from an automatic gun and shot Derrick twice in the head.

Darrell got a disturbing phone call that his brother had been shot and that he was fighting for his life.

He rushed back home to be with him and in one of the interviews he remembered how those moments looked like:

- I held his hand and talked with him. It was hard for me to look at all those tubes around him. I tried to stay calm but it was very hard to hear that he could not breathe on his own.

Derrick succumbed to his injuries, aged only 22, while Darrell was in the hospital room next to him.

- He never even saw me playing - remembered Darrell Williams about the moments when his brother died, but that gave him the motive to move up in the world of basketball, which was what his brother had always wanted.

The murder was never solved, and the family thinks that Derrick was not the real target of the attack.

On the next and every other game, Darrell played for his brother.

He never forgot him and he often mentions him on Twitter, and this detail stands in his profile biography on Instagram.

He started magnificently and on the next season when he arrived at the Oklahoma state college, his coach believed it was his year.

Then, his whole world changed upside down when he was falsely accused of sexually assaulting two girls.

After a couple of years of mental torture, courts, even some jail time, Darrell Williams was cleared of all charges and his life was starting again.

He started this season in Belgium, and he will continue it in "Partizan NIS" Belgrade under the leadership of Aleksandar Džikić, where he should help the team to leave the back side of the charts in regional ABA league, and then to try and bring hope to him and his teammates for the future.

(Telegraf.co.uk)