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BIG SHOT (Former B-Ball star Jason Williams,plays with loaded shotgun while drunk)
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BIG SHOT By MARK STAMEY and DAN MANGAN
NEAR MISS:Jayson Williams recounts in his memoirs how he almost shot Jet wide receiver Wayne Chrebet at Williams' New Jersey mansion.- NYP: Charles Wenzelberg February 21, 2002 -- Former basketball star Jayson Williams, suspected of accidentally shooting and killing a limo driver, has seen a lifetime of gunplay - even nearly blowing away New York Jet Wayne Chrebet by accident. In addition to the near-miss with Chrebet - which happened while target-shooting - he saw his father shoot a kid who had beaten up a young Jayson, and witnessed one of his brothers shoot another brother with a shotgun. When he was a child, his mother also shot at his philandering father. The violence is described in Williams' memoir, "Loose Balls," which details hard drinking, fast living and wild times. Williams, 33, is now being investigated in the Feb. 14 shotgun killing of Costas "Gus" Christofi, a 55-year-old limo driver who died in Williams' mansion in Alexandria Township, N.J. Christofi was buried yesterday in Piscataway, N.J. Police believe that Williams was holding the 12-gauge shotgun when it fired, hitting Christofi, although they also believe the shooting was accidental. A prosecutor has not named the shooter, and Williams' lawyer refuses to say whether his client was holding the gun. Christofi had driven Williams and guests from a Harlem Globetrotters game to the mansion that night. "He was hit in the chest. It blew his heart out. It was a perfect shot," said Chris Adams, Christofi's nephew. "You don't need to hold a gun giving a tour of your home, let alone a loaded shotgun . . . Why weren't there any locks on that damn gun?" Williams has been careless with guns before, according to his book. The memoir describes a day with friends, including Chrebet and New York Giant Jason Sehorn, on the shooting range at Williams' home. "We were taking turns shooting the .50-caliber Desert Eagle, the most powerful handgun in the world," Williams says in the book he co-wrote with Steve Friedman. During his turn, Williams became distracted, and looked around while firing. "What I didn't realize was that Wayne [Chrebet] was right in front of me, kneeling down to pick up one of the cartridges," Williams wrote. "So when I fired the gun, it must have been just a few inches from Wayne's face, 'cause the noise knocked him out cold." Sehorn ran in the house, fearing he'd be killed by Williams' friends to silence him if Chrebet died, Williams wrote in amusement. Also in the book, Williams said that when he was 12, his mother, Barbara, grabbed his dad E.J.'s gun and fired three shots into the bathroom where his father was showering because he had cheated on her. His mother then chased his father with a butcher knife, he wrote. Two years earlier, Williams beat a 19-year-old at pool, but the older boy wouldn't pay the quarter bet, and hit Williams with a pool cue. Williams said his father arrived - in a car with ".45 Magnum" license plates - hit the older boy with a cue, and then shot the boy in the buttocks with a handgun. On the next page, Williams describes one of his brothers, Gregory, shooting his other brother, Stacy, twice in the legs and back with a .410 shotgun after Stacy persisted in throwing high fastballs at Gregory's head while playing baseball. Elsewhere, Williams' dad is described, as a young man, severely knifing a man who attacked him, and Williams tells of his grandfather using a shotgun to ward off the white men looking to retaliate.
NEAR MISS:Jayson Williams recounts in his memoirs how he almost shot Jet wide receiver Wayne Chrebet at Williams' New Jersey mansion.- NYP: Charles Wenzelberg February 21, 2002 -- Former basketball star Jayson Williams, suspected of accidentally shooting and killing a limo driver, has seen a lifetime of gunplay - even nearly blowing away New York Jet Wayne Chrebet by accident. In addition to the near-miss with Chrebet - which happened while target-shooting - he saw his father shoot a kid who had beaten up a young Jayson, and witnessed one of his brothers shoot another brother with a shotgun. When he was a child, his mother also shot at his philandering father. The violence is described in Williams' memoir, "Loose Balls," which details hard drinking, fast living and wild times. Williams, 33, is now being investigated in the Feb. 14 shotgun killing of Costas "Gus" Christofi, a 55-year-old limo driver who died in Williams' mansion in Alexandria Township, N.J. Christofi was buried yesterday in Piscataway, N.J. Police believe that Williams was holding the 12-gauge shotgun when it fired, hitting Christofi, although they also believe the shooting was accidental. A prosecutor has not named the shooter, and Williams' lawyer refuses to say whether his client was holding the gun. Christofi had driven Williams and guests from a Harlem Globetrotters game to the mansion that night. "He was hit in the chest. It blew his heart out. It was a perfect shot," said Chris Adams, Christofi's nephew. "You don't need to hold a gun giving a tour of your home, let alone a loaded shotgun . . . Why weren't there any locks on that damn gun?" Williams has been careless with guns before, according to his book. The memoir describes a day with friends, including Chrebet and New York Giant Jason Sehorn, on the shooting range at Williams' home. "We were taking turns shooting the .50-caliber Desert Eagle, the most powerful handgun in the world," Williams says in the book he co-wrote with Steve Friedman. During his turn, Williams became distracted, and looked around while firing. "What I didn't realize was that Wayne [Chrebet] was right in front of me, kneeling down to pick up one of the cartridges," Williams wrote. "So when I fired the gun, it must have been just a few inches from Wayne's face, 'cause the noise knocked him out cold." Sehorn ran in the house, fearing he'd be killed by Williams' friends to silence him if Chrebet died, Williams wrote in amusement. Also in the book, Williams said that when he was 12, his mother, Barbara, grabbed his dad E.J.'s gun and fired three shots into the bathroom where his father was showering because he had cheated on her. His mother then chased his father with a butcher knife, he wrote. Two years earlier, Williams beat a 19-year-old at pool, but the older boy wouldn't pay the quarter bet, and hit Williams with a pool cue. Williams said his father arrived - in a car with ".45 Magnum" license plates - hit the older boy with a cue, and then shot the boy in the buttocks with a handgun. On the next page, Williams describes one of his brothers, Gregory, shooting his other brother, Stacy, twice in the legs and back with a .410 shotgun after Stacy persisted in throwing high fastballs at Gregory's head while playing baseball. Elsewhere, Williams' dad is described, as a young man, severely knifing a man who attacked him, and Williams tells of his grandfather using a shotgun to ward off the white men looking to retaliate.
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Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.[This message has been edited by thesupermonkey (edited 02-22-2002).]
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Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
Happiness is a warm gun