Daughters of Jayson Williams denounce his St. John's HOF nod

FILE - Jayson Williams is handcuffed after he was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010, at State Superior Court , in Somerville, N.J., for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002. The teenage daughters of former NBA All-Star Jayson Williams have denounced St. John’s University for its decision to induct their father into the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame. Tryumph and Whizdom Williams both wrote open letters they sent Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, to The Associated Press, and also planned to send to St. John’s, that said the school should be ashamed for his induction into the class during Saturday’s homecoming weekend.

FILE - Jayson Williams is handcuffed after he was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010, at State Superior Court , in Somerville, N.J., for fatally shooting a hired driver in 2002. The teenage daughters of former NBA All-Star Jayson Williams have denounced St. John’s University for its decision to induct their father into the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame. Tryumph and Whizdom Williams both wrote open letters they sent Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, to The Associated Press, and also planned to send to St. John’s, that said the school should be ashamed for his induction into the class during Saturday’s homecoming weekend. (AP Photo/Kathy Johnson, Pool, File)


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The daughters of former NBA All-Star Jayson Williams have denounced St. John's University for its plans to induct their father into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame. His daughters accuse Williams of neglect in their lives following his role in the 2002 fatal shooting of a limousine driver. Tryumph and Whizdom Williams both wrote open letters they sent Friday to The Associated Press. They said St. John's should be ashamed for his induction into the class during Saturday's homecoming weekend. The 54-year-old Williams served more than a year in prison for the accidental shotgun death in his New Jersey mansion of chauffeur Costas Christofi.

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