BOXER FLOYD MAYWEATHER AT CENTRE OF SHOOTING MYSTERY

Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr was at the centre of a shooting mystery today.
Police searched the champion's Las Vegas home hours after Mayweather allegedly threatened a man's life.
Detectives scoured the 32-year-old fighter's mansion looking for a gun after his car was spotted at the scene of a shooting that took place on Sunday night.
Mayweather's acquaintance Quincey Williams, 24, claimed to be the target of the late-night shooting incident outside the Crystal Palace Skating Centre on the outskirts Las Vegas.
He told police that Mayweather, who thrashed British boxer Ricky Hatton to take the WBC welterweight championship in December 2007, threatened his life less than an hour before shots were fired in the rink's car park.
Williams alleged he had encountered Mayweather at the rink earlier that evening and the boxer 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, who is coming out of retirement to return to the ring in September, would lose.
Williams said he has known Mayweather for "more than a decade."
Mayweather was rated from July 18, 2005, through June 2, 2008, as the number-one pound for pound boxer in the world by boxing magazine The Ring.
He has won six world boxing championships in five different weight classes. He is the former WBC welterweight champion, a title he vacated upon his retirement. He was named Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year in 1998 and 2007.
Williams claims that Mayweather told him: “He's got enough money to get me hit."
He believed the comment was a threat to his life.
Williams said Mayweather was at the rink with two bodyguards.
When he 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 car park.
Williams and his friend were driving out of the car park in a new-model BMW convertible when the passenger side of the car was hit five times. One bullet also struck the boot.
He did not see who fired the shots. No one was injured.
About 30 to 45 minutes passed between the confrontation Williams described and when the shots were fired, he claimed.
Las Vegas police spokesman Bill Cassell confirmed 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.
Witnesses told police shots were fired after 10 p.m. at the skating rink.
Las Vegas police Lt. Patrick Charoen said Mayweather's Rolls-Royce was seen near the shooting scene. Another vehicle in the car park was also hit several times.
Williams' mother, Beatrice Turner, said her 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 armed with a search warrant arrived at Mayweather's luxury Southern Highlands home on Monday. They searched the house and a vehicle owned by the boxer.
Officers said that Mayweather was not suspected of being the shooter. 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 believes Mayweather knows the identity of the shooter and can help police find him.
He said: "Floyd knows who he is. He works for Floyd."
Mayweather is slated to come out of a brief retirement to fight Juan Manuel Marquez on September 19 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The fighter's father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., who became Hatton's trainer after his son knocked out the British champ, said Floyd Jr had nothing to do with the shooting.
Mayweather Sr. said he had spoken to his son after the police search.
He alleged that officers had ransacked his son's home on Monday looking for a weapon but did not find anything.
Mayweather Sr. said the reason his son's car was at the skating rink was because Floyd Jr takes his children there every Sunday to skate.
The boxer's official spokesman has not commented on the incident.
In 2005 Floyd Jr went to trial for a domestic violence charge. He faced a minimum of one year in prison if he was convicted.
The fighter had been accused of violence against his former girlfriend, Josie Harris.
She had claimed that Mayweather had punched and kicked her during an argument in Mayweather's Bentley, outside a Las Vegas nightclub in 2003.
But during the trial, Harris admitted that she had lied on the initial police report and testified that Mayweather never hit her. The jury acquitted Mayweather.
On August 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 he owned.
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.