DENVER -- The trial of a man accused of killing Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams entered its sixth day Tuesday with defense attorneys continuing an intense cross-examination of a convicted drug dealer who said he saw Willie Clark unload a gun at the limousine carrying Williams early New Year’s Day 2007.

The shooting followed an altercation involving other Denver Broncos in and outside the Safari Club on Broadway.

Clark faces charges including first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder.

5 p.m. Tuesday

A woman testified that Willie Clark wore a bullet proof vest on New Year’s 2007 when Darrent Williams was shot dead and he told her: “We had to get off on some (racial slur)" that night.

Veronica Garcia testified Tuesday that she interpreted that to mean that Clark "had probably had a shoot out with someone." She said she didn’t figure out until later that he was talking about the Williams slaying.

She said that Clark was wearing a bullet proof vest and driving her boyfriend's white Chevrolet Tahoe on that New Year's Eve.

Garcia said soon after the killing she met with Daniel Harris, who testified Monday that he was in the Tahoe on the night Williams was killed and saw Clark fire a gun into the Bronco player’s Hummer limousine.

"Daniel (Harris) said that he 'told that (racial slur) not to do it,'" said Garcia, who took that to mean Harris told Clark not to shoot.

She said another Denver gang member, Vernon Edwards, was also present during her conversation with Harris.

"Vernon said that 'Willie (expletive) up,'" Garcia recounted.

Yet, later, defense attorney Abraham Hutt got Garcia to acknowledge that she told prosecutors in October 2008 that she feared Harris and Edwards were going to killer her, because she suspected "they had killed the Bronco player."

But Garcia explained that she became wary of Harris and Edwards because after the murder she drove around the Safari club with them as they looked for security cameras.

Under questioning by prosecutor Twining, Garcia said she no longer believes the two men were involved in the slaying.

Garcia described herself as the girlfriend of Brian Hicks, whom witnesses have described as a drug dealer and the leader of a Denver gang that includes Clark.

Hicks had loaned Clark his Tahoe SUV, Garcia testified.

Garcia said that Clark also asked her to fabricate an alibi for him the night of the Williams slaying.

"(Clark) said, 'If anybody asks you where I was last night, tell them I was with you,'" Garcia testified. "He wanted me to say that I was with him the night of the murder."

To "fabricate an alibi?" prosecutor Tim Twining said.

"Yes," Garcia replied. She said Clark asked her a second time to provide the alibit when he called her from jail after he was arrested days later on an unrelated charge.

"Was Clark with you?" the prosecutor asked.

"No," Garcia said.

Garcia appeared in an orange jail jumpsuit and said she was incarcerated in Douglas County for violating probation on a vehicular assault conviction. In the probation violation, she had pleaded guilty to crack-cocaine dealing, but she has not been sentenced.

Like two other witnesses in the case, Garcia said she reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors that requires her to "testify truthfully about whatever I know about crimes," including the murder of Williams.

On New Year’s Day, she said, Clark asked her to "put the truck (Tahoe) up, because it was (expletive) up."

She took that to mean he wanted her to store the SUV, because it was wasn’t working. But she said the Tahoe worked fine when she drove it to her Green Valley Ranch home and parked it in the garage.

Two days later, Garcia said, she saw a morning TV news report showing a photo of a white Tahoe and saying "that Brian Hicks’ truck was involved in a homicide."

Garcia said she walked a block to Clark’s house and "I told him he needed to go get the car out of my garage," Garcia said.

"(Clark) asked me to calm down and he says he'll remove it when it gets dark," Garcia said.

Prosecutors played for the jury a recording of a phone call Hicks made to Clark a day after the Williams killing. Hicks called from the Denver jail where he was under arrest for a drug offense.

Hicks rebuked Clark for not telling him that he had wrecked Hicks' white Tahoe in an accident.

"You didn't tell me you crashed the damn car, man," Hicks said.

"We good, cuz," Clark reassured Hicks, using slang for cousin for his buddy. "It's fixable."

"Trust me, cuz. That was like a blind-side hit, cuz," Clark added.

On Monday, Daniel Harris testified that a "blind-side hit" is gang slang for surprising the target of a drive-by shooting.

Harris said Clark had executed a "blind-side hit" when he shot up Williams' stretch-limousine.

In the Jan. 2 phone call, Hicks warned Clark: "You got to make sure you take the (expletive) license plates off" the white Tahoe.

"Did you bend the fender up? ... The plates didn't fall off or nothing, did they?" Hicks asked.

"Nawh, Nawh, Nawh ... It's all good," Clark said.

But the license plates were still on the Tahoe when police found the SUV burned, spray-painted and abandoned about 10 blocks from Clark's home.

Garcia said she later found black spray-paint residue on her garage floor and similar black-paint footprints inside the floor and carpeting of her home. Garcia said she saw that as evidence that Clark and others had attempted to conceal the color of the white SUV by spray-painting it in her garage.

1:15 p.m. Tuesday

Defense attorney Darren Cantor pressed Daniel “Ponytail” Harris to explain his 2009 account that Clark, who is about 5 feet 7 inches tall, could have been simultaneously driving a Chevrolet Tahoe while “leaning out” the front passenger window and shooting at the Hummer limousine carrying Darrent Williams.

"I don’t know my exact words," Harris replied, referring to what he said under oath at an Aug. 19, 2009, court hearing.

Cantor read aloud Harris’ testimony that "Willie Clark is leaning out the window shooting into the limousine."

"If that’s what the paper says, that’s what I said," Harris dourly replied.

Later, prosecutor Tim Twining asked Harris to "explain to the jury what you mean by 'Willie Clark is leaning out of the window, shooting into the limousine'"

"I meant when he was shooting, he leaned over the passenger (seat) and he was shooting out of the window," Harris said. "Now, (is Clark) leaning out the window the whole way, I don’t know."

11:45 a.m. Tuesday

Harris denied the defense's assertion that he told a woman in Mexico that he had killed Darrent Williams.

"While you are in Mexico, are you down there talking … to women that you don’t know about this shooting?" prosecutor Tim Twining asked the key witness.

"No," Harris replied.

"Did you at any point tell someone that you did it?" Twining asked.

"No," Harris insisted.

"Would you tell anybody that (you killed the Broncos player)?" the prosecutor asked.

"No," the convicted drug dealer replied.

"Why not?" Twining asked.

"Because I don’t want to tell anybody that and have them think that I’m doing this shooting stuff out here, implicated in a murder I didn’t have nothing to do with," Harris said.

"So you told no one any such thing in Mexico?" the prosecutor asked.

"No," Harris said.

11 a.m. Tuesday

Defense attorneys have argued that key prosecution witness Daniel "Ponytail" Harris, who admits to being a “prolific” crack-cocaine dealer, has been "bought and paid for" in deals with state and federal prosecutors to accuse Clark of killing the 23-year-old Williams.

Harris testified Monday that he was riding in the back of a white Chevrolet Tahoe from which Clark-- while driving the SUV -- blasted with gunfire a Hummer stretch-limo carrying Williams and 14 others.

Harris, 39, was facing possible life in prison for federal drug trafficking charges, but received an agreement that allowed him to plead guilty to a single charge and all other charges were dropped, he testified Monday. He also received immunity from prosecution in the Williams slaying case.

"If you do your part of the deal, they (prosecutors) all tell the judge you ought to get five years instead of what you are facing?" defense Darren Cantor asked Harris Monday.

"I don't know how that all works," Harris replied. "That is all legal stuff, and I am no lawyer."

Harris said he received federal prosecutors’ recommendation for a five year sentence if he testifies truthfully in all state or federal cases, but Harris said ultimately a federal judge will decide sentence he receives.