jayson williams is guilty essays

jayson williams is guilty essays Former NBA player Jayson Williams, 36, is fully responsible for the February fourteenth (2002) shooting of Costas Christofi. Christofi, 55, had been hired to drive Williams's friends from a Bethlehem, Pa. charity event back to his estate. Williams shot Christofi while giving his house guests a tour of his Hunterdon County estate after a night out. Williams's brother, and eleven other guests, including four players from the Harlem Globetrotters, were at the house the night of the shooting. According to the witnesses who testified at the trial, while Williams was showing his guests around his master bedroom, he grabbed a twelve-gauge shotgun from his gun cabinet, opened it, and then jerked it shut. When the gun closed, it fired, striking Christofi in the chest. He was found shot to death in the master bedroom. Williams was charged with manslaughter and other charges which include hindering apprehension, evidence tampering, witness tampering, fabricating physical evidence and conspi racy to obstruct the law for the death of his limousine driver (Free Press). What is hard to understand is why Williams even took the shotgun out of his gun cabinet. Something which is even more difficult to understand is how he could not realize the shotgun was loaded. If he did realize it was loaded, could he actually be that reckless to play around with it. Also, why was the gun even facing Christofi? There is no doubt that he did nott mean to kill Christofi, but how could he be so reckless? The fact that he shot Christofi is not even the disturbing part. Christofi's death was initially reported as a suicide, but it was later ruled a homicide after an autopsy confirmed it. A 911 tape actually reveals Williams saying that a man committed suicide in his house. Williams told his guests to agree on saying that Christofi killed himself. During the time in which Christofi was shot, Williams wiped down the gun and then tried to t...