*** UPDATE*** June 16, 2021: To all the followers of National Police Association, We just received word that Elmer Hayes has received another 4 years! We attended the Parole hearing last week. It was a very emotional few days for us. This time around Mr. Hayes had completed all required classes, has not had a write up in 20 years, and his health is starting to fail him. On top of this all he was only given 3 years at the last hearing. Now with COVID, we were bracing ourselves for a release date. To say we are elated with this ruling is an understatement. There is no doubt in my mind, it is because of each and everyone of you, who took a few minutes out of your day to make a difference. I thank all of you who reached out with your kind words. A few of you knew my Dad and had stories to tell. I may have made a new friend or two along the way. To the NPA, there aren’t enough words. Without you none of this would have been possible, and we may have been looking at a whole different scenario. You have truly been a turning point for us! Please keep telling the stories. There are so many voices to be heard. From the bottom of my heart, thank you all again. God Bless our LEO’s. Cindy Shaw, Daughter (Sgt. Jay Noser)
On June 20, 1979, Elmer Richard Hayes, entered the office of the Northwestern Savings and Loan Association in Florissant, Missouri, exhibited a gun to a teller and demanded money. The teller handed him $1,600 and Hayes left. A witness noted Hayes’ departure and gave police a description of the vehicle Hayes was driving.
Detective Sergeant Jay Noser of the Florissant Police Department responded to the call. En route to the scene in an unmarked car, he heard the police broadcast describing the robber’s car and the direction of its travel. Sergeant Noser proceeding in that direction saw a car which matched the description and initiated a traffic stop. It was Hayes. Hayes pulled over to the right of the roadway.
Noser stopped behind the vehicle and radioed dispatch. While he was doing so, Hayes got out of his vehicle and started firing at Noser, striking him through the windshield. Hayes then walked to the driver’s side of Noser’s car and fired several shots point blank. Noser was struck by a total of eight bullets.
Noser survived with three bullets left in his body. One of them lodged in his head.
Noser’s daughter told the press “My dad was 215 pounds when he was shot and his weight went to 140. He was a skeleton of a man. He had nightmares for years. He lost ribs, his spleen.”
Noser never fully recovered. He died in 2008. His death certificate said he died from infections related to gunshot wounds.
Noser’s daughter, Cindy Shaw, has done all she can to keep her father’s killer behind bars, appearing at every parole hearing, keeping a promise she made to her father on the day he died. At some point in the next month the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole will reach a decision as to whether the killer of Cindy Shaw’s father goes free.
No killer of a police officer should ever be granted parole. Attacks on police are an attack on society itself. We urge you to contact the Board of Probation and Parole and ask them to keep Elmer Richard Hayes behind bars.
Email: probation.parole@doc.mo.gov
Re: Elmer R Hayes, #22281
Mailing Address:
Board of Probation and Parole
Re: Elmer R Hayes, #22281
3400 Knipp Drive
Jefferson City, MO 65109
Phone: (573)-751-8488
Fax: (573)-751-8501