Why did New York City policemen use stun guns on Jayson Williams Monday?
Cops Tasered ex-NBA star Jayson Williams on Monday after the troubled hoopster freaked out in a violent, suicidal rage in a luxury Manhattan hotel, police sources said. The mercurial New Jersey Nets center, who faces a retrial for shooting his chauffeur in 2002, was rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan in handcuffs after cops found suicide notes and empty pill bottles littering his 15th-floor room, sources said. “Tell my mother that I love her,” Williams, 41, wrote in one panicked scribble on a hotel wall, police sources said. Williams, who is going through a nasty divorce, was in a spacious room at the Hilton Embassy Suites in Battery Park City. The 6-foot-10 former All-Star called his mother around 1 a.m. Things quickly went downhill as he became distraught and apparently started downing sleeping pills and anti-depressants. A worried woman called cops around 4a.m. Police smashed down the door to get inside. The towering, 325-pound star began flailing and talking gibberish at co
Former NBA star Jayson Williams was arrested early Monday after authorities say he punched someone in the face outside a Raleigh nightclub, the latest legal tribulation for the All-Star who has spent years in the courtroom since an injury ended his basketball career. Williams Some type of dispute led Williams, 41, to hit the other person shortly before 2 a.m., Raleigh police said. Williams was charged with one count of simple assault and released on $1,000 bond. “He was very cooperative during the investigation and very cooperative during the arrest,” said Capt. T.L. Earnhardt of the Raleigh Police Department. Joseph Hayden, an attorney for Williams, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Williams, who played nine seasons in the NBA for the New Jersey Nets and Philadelphia 76ers before retiring in 2000, is facing a retrial on a charge of reckless manslaughter in the 2002 shooting death of his driver, Costas “Gus” Christofi, at his mansion in Alexandria Township, N.J. Accord
Ex-NBA star Jayson Williams became suicidal and extremely violent as he fought off police in his room at the Hilton Embassy Suites in Manhattan Monday, April 27. He had to be subdued by New York City police with stun guns and handcuffs. The man had written suicidal notes and taken pills. Apparently he was distraught over his divorce, his parents’ illnesses, and his upcoming retrial for shooting his chauffeur in 2002. Sources: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/04/27/2009-04-27_exnets_star_jayson_williams_.
