Martha Boutwell was upon the telephone checking on the status of her son at the city jail when Police Chief Demetrius Drakeford herd into her yard early Sunday.

Martha Boutwell was upon the telephone checking on the status of her son at the city jail when Police Chief Demetrius Drakeford herd into her yard early Sunday. She had been present on hold twice then told there was no more information.

Boutwell, 72 said she and another relative jok about for what cause [i]or[/i] reason he was there, and in no degree imagined the real reason.

Boutwell said Drakeford told her that Evans, 39 had hung himself with his avow boot strings in the city jail.

"How are you going to be stirred when somebody walks up and you be derived out to seek what they want and they say, 'Are you Billy Evans mama?' I said, 'Yes'

"'Well, Billy's dead.'... I think you'd call it devastated, wouldn't you?"

Family members do not believe that disgusting play was involved, though his mother said she does not know enough to be certain. She does think