"Suicidal" Jayson Williams Tasered

[ABM]

Sad deal

NEW YORK (AP)—Jayson Williams was stunned with a Taser by police in his swank hotel suite Monday after the reportedly suicidal ex-NBA star resisted attempts by officers to take him to a hospital.

Police were called to the hotel in lower Manhattan’s Battery Park City around 4 a.m. when a female friend reported the former New Jersey Nets player was acting suicidal.

When officers arrived, the 6-foot-10, 325-pound Williams appeared drunk and agitated, police said. There were empty bottles of prescription drugs strewn around his disheveled hotel suite and several suicide notes.

Officers with the Emergency Services Unit, an elite team trained to deal with emotionally disturbed people, responded and stunned Williams with a Taser after he resisted attempts to be hospitalized.......

 

[Shooter]

What's he doing in a hotel suite in New York, when he has a mansion in New Jersey? If he wants to commit suicide, he should do it there.

 

[ebott]

That guy is the gift that keeps on giving. I love the part at the end of this article where they talk about the guy shooting off an automatic weapon in the parking lot. What a mess. I can't wait for him to be in jail.

 

[julius]

Not to be an ass about things, but dude killed a guy. I don't feel any pity for him.