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SC quad-city times QUAD-CITY AREA Sunday, Jan. 26, 1992 Galesburg man tries to find answers to his son's death ml Police have ruled shooting a suicide ii Quad-City Hmes Newspaper In Education wishes to extend a very special to all Quad City businesses and organizations that participated as classroom sponsors for the 1991-92 school year! Thanks! By Caroline Porter QUAD-CITY TIMES GALESBURG, 111. The father of a 23-year-old Galesburg man who was found shot to death June 30 is waging a private battle to prove his son did not commit suicide. For a month, Larry Williams, president of Protexall in Galesburg and Monmouth, has placed ads in area newspapers, offering $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the shooting death. But Galesburg police, the pathologist who did the autopsy, and a sC Va Hi Danny Williams ciates of Galesburg, July 10.

"The police are saying that Danny was upset because he didn't get a promotion," Williams said. He discounted that theory. "He was a partner in this business and distribution manager. I don't know how much higher he could go." Friends, relatives and police also say Danny's girlfriend moved out of his home in May. She told police that Danny called her at 2 a.m.

June 29. He had been drinking and asked to see her. She refused. A witness told police that Danny had threatened suicide twice during an argument and had fired a shot into a wall. Other witnesses indicated that Danny was depressed and did not get along with co-workers.

Statements to police also indicate that Danny was a heavy drinker and used drugs. Drug paraphernalia was found in the home, and the autopsy report found a blood alcohol level of 0.274. A blood alcohol level of 0.10 or above is considered as intoxicated. However, Williams claims that finding is misleading because other pathologists have told him the ethanol level builds up in the body after death. Williams believes Danny was murdered and that someone else was injured badly in the same incident.

He said Danny had been in fights, had enemies and had been threatened. He also contends that blood has been found that was not his son's. Lab in Downers Grove informed Williams last week that the lab has identified two kinds of blood on a sheet, which Williams said was on the couch under the body. Coroner's photos do not show a sheet on the couch. However, Williams admits that "There are too many unanswered questions.

If it's a death, it should be treated like a homicide unless proved otherwise." Larry Williams when he found the body of his son and called police, he told them it looked like suicide. Police files state that the house was locked with dead bolts from the inside and all the windows were locked. But Williams says that even though the house was orderly, furniture and other small items were found out of place, which indicated that someone else had been there. "There are too many unanswered questions. If it's a death, it should be treated like a homicide unless proved otherwise," he said.

Officials say their investigation has been thorough. Coroner Watson said that as he entered Danny's house June 30, a man at the scene said to him, "It looks like a shooting." "So, I went in there with no ideas about suicide," Watson said. "We make no assumptions. Why would we want to cover up a murder?" Galesburg Police Chief John Schlaf said police have tried to cooperate with Williams and have kept the investigation open. Williams said his attorney, David Reid Clark, Monmouth, will talk to the Knox County State's Attorney's Office this week about new evidence they expect to receive Monday from the WLab.

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