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He swore Shady was his real first name. He also claimed that he was the only member of the legislature who could prove that he was legally sane since he had spent some time in a mental institute and had a certificate of release to prove his soundness of mind. . . . He had dabbled in real estate, advertising, and 'investments', and he had married well and become the president of a bank in West Monroe. He loved guns and firearms and kept a cache of them in his apartment at the Pentagon Barracks adjacent to the Capitol. He reportedly had a bowl of hand grenades displayed on a dining room table like a still life display of fruit. He had also reportedly fired a pistol at an [unnamed] representative who made the mistake of incurring his ire. [It] seems this colleague and several others were playing a childish prank on Shady one night and got caught. They were fleeing the scene when Shady opened fire. Luckily, he missed. No one is quite sure whether that was intentional.<ref>[[Ron Gomez]], ''My Name Is Ron And I'm a Recovering Legislator: Memoirs of a Louisiana State Representative'' ([[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]]: Zemog Publishing, 2000), pp. 59-70, ISBN 0-9700156-0-7</ref></blockquote>​

He swore Shady was his real first name. He also claimed that he was the only member of the legislature who could prove that he was legally sane since he had spent some time in a mental institute and had a certificate of release to prove his soundness of mind. . . . He had dabbled in real estate, advertising, and 'investments', and he had married well and become the president of a bank in West Monroe. He loved guns and firearms and kept a cache of them in his apartment at the Pentagon Barracks adjacent to the Capitol. He reportedly had a bowl of hand grenades displayed on a dining room table like a still life display of fruit. He had also reportedly fired a pistol at an [unnamed] representative who made the mistake of incurring his ire. [It] seems this colleague and several others were playing a childish prank on Shady one night and got caught. They were fleeing the scene when Shady opened fire. Luckily, he missed. No one is quite sure whether that was intentional.<ref>[[Ron Gomez]], ''My Name Is Ron And I'm a Recovering Legislator: Memoirs of a Louisiana State Representative'' ([[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]]: Zemog Publishing, 2000), pp. 59-70, ISBN 0-9700156-0-7</ref></blockquote>​

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Gomez further describes Wall at fifty-eight as "a tall, well proportioned man [and] totally gray. He dressed with a flair. He wore white linen suits, brightly colored ties and ankle high boots. It was not uncommon for him to have a small revolver in an ankle holster tucked inside a boot.  . . . As a younger man, he was quite dashing with a dazzling smile. But his most arresting features were his eyebrows . . . thick and black [and] shaped like an upside down V and, combined with eyes that seemed to dance crazily when he grinned, gave him a devilish look."<ref>Ron Gomez, p. 70.</ref>​

Gomez further describes Wall at fifty-eight as:

A tall, well proportioned man [and] totally gray. He dressed with a flair. He wore white linen suits, brightly colored ties and ankle high boots. It was not uncommon for him to have a small revolver in an ankle holster tucked inside a boot.  . . . As a younger man, he was quite dashing with a dazzling smile. But his most arresting features were his eyebrows . . . thick and black [and] shaped like an upside down V and, combined with eyes that seemed to dance crazily when he grinned, gave him a devilish look."<ref>Ron Gomez, p. 70.</ref>​</blockquote>

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Gomez recalls a day in the House in the early 1980s when Wall pulled a pistol on Representative Carl Newton Gunter, Jr. (1938-1999) of Deville in Rapides Parish after Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's conference call with his banking colleagues.<ref name="Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71">Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71.</ref> At that point, the House sergeant-at-arms, Richard L. Barrios, and Representative John Clifford Ensminger, Sr., also of West Monroe, grabbed Wall to prevent him from harming the shaken Gunter.<ref name="Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71"/>​

Gomez recalls a day in the House in the early 1980s when Wall pulled a pistol on Representative Carl Newton Gunter, Jr. (1938-1999) of Deville in Rapides Parish after Gunter inadvertently disconnected Wall's conference call with his banking colleagues.<ref name="Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71">Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71.</ref> At that point, the House sergeant-at-arms, Richard L. Barrios, and Representative John Clifford Ensminger, Sr., also of West Monroe, grabbed Wall to prevent him from harming the shaken Gunter.<ref name="Ron Gomez, pp. 70-71"/>​