Threat by boxer alleged

Quincey Williams, 24, said he encountered Mayweather at the Crystal Palace Skating Center on Sunday night. Williams said Mayweather immediately confronted him over a text message he had sent him two months ago. In the text message, Williams said he hoped that the undefeated Mayweather would lose.

Williams said he has known Mayweather for “more than a decade.” Williams summed up what he claims Mayweather told him Sunday: “He’s got enough money to get me hit.”

Williams thinks the comment was a threat to his life.

Williams said Mayweather was at the rink with two bodyguards. When Williams left the rink with a friend, several shots were fired at their car. He said the shots came from the direction of Mayweather and his bodyguards, who were standing in the parking lot.

Williams did not see the shooter. No one was injured.

About 30 to 45 minutes passed between the confrontation Williams described and when the shots were fired.

Las Vegas police spokesman Bill Cassell confirmed late Monday that Williams was listed as one of the victims in the police report on the shooting. He declined to comment further. Police said Mayweather has been cooperative in their investigation. He is not a suspect in the shooting, police said.

Witnesses told police shots were fired after 10 p.m. at the skating center, 4680 Boulder Highway, north of Flamingo Road. Las Vegas police Lt. Patrick Charoen said Mayweather’s Rolls-Royce was seen near the shooting scene. Another vehicle in the parking lot also was hit several times.

The police account of events reflects what Williams said transpired.

A manager for Mayweather could not be reached for comment late Monday.

Williams mother, Beatrice Turner, said her son and his friend were in a new-model BMW convertible when the passenger side of the car was hit five times. One bullet also struck the trunk, she said.

Turner said her son called her immediately after the shooting.

“He said: ‘Mama, they shooting at the car,”‘ she said. “I told him don’t stop that car because if you stop that car, they’ll kill you.”

Turner said her son and his friend drove to her home after the shooting and called police.

Police served a search warrant Monday at a residence owned by Mayweather in Southern Highlands, a master-planned community near Interstate 15 and Cactus Avenue. The warrant allowed police to search a vehicle owned by the boxer.

Police said they are seeking a suspect who is a “known associate” of Mayweather Promotions and who might use the nickname “O.C.”

The suspect is a black man described as 6 feet tall and about 220 pounds. He has brown eyes and black, shoulder-length hair worn in dreadlocks, police said.

Williams was critical of the police investigation. “I don’t understand why they went to his house and didn’t arrest him,” he said.

Williams thinks Mayweather knows the identity of the shooter and can help police find him.

“Floyd knows who he is. He works for Floyd.”

Representatives at Crystal Palace declined to comment Monday.

Mayweather is slated to fight Juan Manuel Marquez on Sept. 19 at the MGM Grand.

On Aug. 2, Las Vegas police arrested Mayweather’s uncle, 48-year-old Roger Mayweather, in connection with an attack on a female boxer he once trained. The victim in the attack was Melissa St. Vil, a police report said.

The report said Roger Mayweather, as a landlord, was upset that one of his tenants allowed St. Vil to move into an apartment on the 700 block of Rock Springs Drive, near Rainbow Boulevard and Washington Avenue.

A police report said Roger Mayweather prevented St. Vil from retreating to her bedroom. When she tried to push past him, he grabbed her, forced her into the living room and punched her several times in the ribs, the police report said. Roger Mayweather also “wrapped his hands around her throat, causing her to nearly pass out,” the report said.

Anyone with any information concerning the Crystal Palace shooting is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555 or the Las Vegas police Violent Crimes Section at 828-5634.

Review-Journal writer Maggie Lillis contributed to this article. Contact reporter Antonio Planas at aplanas@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-4638.