Wedding Guest Gone Wild

[Jim Tucker]

Remember the story of the wedding guest that struck a Waltercolor security guard then tried to punch a deputy? He will now serve five years in prison. State Attorney Bill Eddins says Terry Lee Hays was sentenced by Judge Kelvin Wells to the Department of Corrections to serve 5 years. Hays had previously been found guilty in February by a Walton County jury of Aggravated Battery with Great Bodily Harm or a Deadly Weapon, Resisting an Officer with Violence, Criminal Mischief, and Disorderly Intoxication.


The charges arose from an incident that occurred at the Watercolor Inn in south Walton back on May 28, 2013. Hays was part of a wedding reception being hosted at the Fish Out of Water restaurant. After causing a disturbance at the restaurant, he was asked to leave the property by staff and Watercolor security. As a security officer was trying to arrange a ride for Hays back to his hotel, he grasped a car key between his knuckles and repeatedly struck the officer in the back of the head. He was restrained by security until deputies from the Walton County Sheriff’s Office could arrive. Once on scene, Hays then tried to punch one of these deputies. After being arrested, he then kicked out the back side window of a Walton County Sheriff’s Office patrol car.

 

[Dawn]

FloriDUH 7:50 a.m. EDT, May 30, 2013




Just call this dude the wedding guest from hell.


On Tuesday night when deputies arrived after getting a call about a drunken wedding guest attacking a security guard at a vacation rental property on Santa Rosa Beach, they found a security guard covered in blood, kneeling down on the ground, holding down another man, later identified as Terry Lee Hays, 39, of Lakeland, according to a news release from the Walton County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies said Hays was “growling” and combative. When a deputy on scene identified himself as law enforcement, Hays told the deputy he would kill him, according to the Sheriff's Office.

The security guard told deputies he had been attacked by Hays after Hays became confrontational at a wedding taking place on the property. Hays then tried to leave in his car but security tried to stop him since he was drunk, the release stated.

The feud then got physical after Hays allegedly pushed and then charged at the security guard. Hays then took the keys to his car and stabbed the security guard numerous times in the back of the head with the keys, the release stated.

While concerned deputies tried to check on the security guard, Hays allegedly disobeyed deputies and tried getting up and even tried to take a swing at one of them.

That deputy described the swing as “glancing blow to the right temple and forehead,” according to the report.

After a deputy managed to tase Hays and get him back down on the ground, several deputies tried to calm and restrain Hays but he continued to fight and resist -- so deputies tased Hays once more, the release stated.

Once Hays was cuffed and placed into the back of a patrol car, he reportedly kicked one of the rear windows out.

Hays is charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, criminal mischief over $200 but less than $1000, resisting with violence, and disorderly conduct.