Former NBA star Jayson Williams, who played for the New Jersey Nets, has been hospitalized after holing up in a New York City hotel and trashing his room. Hotel officials described Williams as "suicidal" and called the police to intervene.When police responded to the call Williams refused to leave his room and turned violent, resulting in the police using a taser on Williams.
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, 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., possibly from the room. Police smashed down the door to get inside.
The towering, 325-pound star fought back and police had to use the stun guns to subdue him. It took two sets of handcuffs to restrain him, cops said.
Cops found several suicide notes, including a message scrawled on the wall.
Williams was distraught over his divorce, his parents' illnesses and his impending retrial in the chauffeur-shooting case, they said.
His estranged wife, Tanya Young Williams, also arrived at the hospital, but emergency room staff would not let her see Williams.
Prosecutors charged that Williams was goofing off with a shotgun while giving a tour of this palatial home and the weapon went off, killing Christofi.
Williams gained notoriety after being charged with reckless manslaughter in the shooting death of his chauffeur in 2002.
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