Image After the accident, Maury visited Jeff nearly every day. Years later, Jeff would visit Maury in jail and at various court appearances.

WHILE MR. DAVIS was in town, I took him and Mr. Williams to dinner at Giovanni’s on the Grand Concourse, their favorite Italian restaurant in the Bronx. At one point, Ms. Brown, Mr. Williams’s wife, stopped by briefly to say hello. Later, Mr. Davis recalled how he had attended their wedding in June of 2017 in the Dominican Republic. As the friend who had introduced them, he naturally had been among the 40 invited guests.

The wedding was held at the Punta Cana Hotel. The after party went on for four days and four nights.

Mr. Williams’s sister, Shanika Williams, made all the arrangements, choosing the invitations, the hotel, the photographer, the linens and table adornments, the lights and the two-tiered wedding cake.

Back when she was just 4 years old, Mr. Davis recalled, Shanika would come to Jeff’s hospital bedside with her toy doctor’s kit and a Band-Aid to try to make him all better. Now 41, Ms. Williams was serving as his maid of honor.

After the reception, dancing lasted into the wee hours. Mr. Davis kept nudging Mr. Williams to get more involved in the action. So the groom donned sunglasses and started to swing around in his wheelchair while holding his bride’s hand, pumping himself up and down like a jack-in-the-box and twirling his arms above his head like the rotary blades on a helicopter.

Though the choices they made and the turns their lives took have been very different, Mr. Williams and Mr. Davis remain devoted to each other.

As Ms. Williams put it, “Jeff needs Maury as much as Maury needs Jeff.”

Neal Hirschfeld was a reporter and editor for The Daily News from 1972 through 1989. Now a resident of Portland, Oregon, he is the co-author of the nonfiction books “Detective” and “Dancing With the Devil.”