Jayson Williams

Police use Taser to subdue Jayson Williams
Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets star facing a retrial on a reckless
manslaughter charge, was stunned with a Taser in a New York City hotel room by police after reports he was suicidal and violent.
Police said Williams, 41, was taken to an area for a psychiatric evaluation. Police responded to a call that Williams was suicidal at a hotel in downtown Manhattan at around 4 a.m. Monday. They say Williams was intoxicated and agitated in the room, and there were empty bottles of prescription pills strewn around.

Emergency Services Unit officers stunned him with a Taser stun gun, handcuffed him and transported him to a hospital.

Williams has been convicted of attempting to cover up the shooting of 55-year-old limousine driver Costas "Gus" Christofi at the athlete's former Alexandria Township estate in Hunterdon County, but jurors couldn't reach a verdict on the charge of reckless manslaughter.




Ex-Nets star Jayson Williams 'suicidal' at Manhattan hotel; Tasered after showdown with NYPD cops

Cops Tasered ex-NBA star Jayson Williams Monday after the troubled hoopster went nuts in his luxury Manhattan hotel room, police sources said.
The popular New Jersey Nets center, who beat the rap trial for shooting his chauffeur in 2002, was rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital in handcuffs after cops found suicide notes and empty bottles of pills in his room, sources said.
"He was barricaded, drinking, taking pills. He was overwhelmed," a police source said. "It all came crashing down."
Police were called to the Hilton Embassy Suites in Battery Park City at 4 a.m., after a female friend called security to report a disturbance in Williams' 15th-floor suite, the sources said.
Williams, 41, trashed his room, forcing Emergency Service Unit officers to subdue the former All-Star with a Taser gun, sources said. It took two sets of handcuffs to restrain the husky star, cops said.
Cops found several suicide notes, including a message scrawled on the wall. They said he was distraught over his divorce, his parents' illnesses and his impending retrial in the chauffeur-shooting case.


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