Melvin Williams, Actor And Inspiration For ‘The Wire,’ Dies At 73
 

Melvin Williams, the one-time Baltimore drug kingpin whose transformation helped inspire David Simon’s HBO series “The Wire,” died Thursday at University of Maryland Medical Center, according to the Baltimore Sun. He was 73.
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