Melvin Williams, Inspiration for The Wire, Dies at 73

Melvin Williams, whose life became the inspiration for HBO's The Wire, died Thursday at age 73, The Wrap reports.

Williams, who went by the nickname "Little Melvin," was a drug kingpin in the 1960s, and is regarded as the inspiration for Wood Harris' character Avon Barksdale on the landmark

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