Smith’s former Saints teammates were pallbearers at the service, according to The Associated Press.
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Funeral services were held Saturday for former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith, who was fatally shot last week, NBC News reported.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert). New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson rides in a golf cart as his wife, Gayle Benson, drives, to view the casket of former Saints defensive end Will Smith during a public viewing inside the Saints’ training facility in Metairie. She suffered a shot in each leg during the incident.
Gerald Herbert/AP Former New Orleans Saints running back Pierre Thomas (center), with former New Orleans policeman Billy Ceravolo behind him, near Will Smith’s casket.
‘I lived a wonderful life.
Among other things, he has criticized the NOPD for initially saying only one gun – the one used to kill Smith – was confiscated at the shooting scene. A private funeral was held Saturday at a downtown theater.
State Police Superintendent Mike Edmonson said the incident involving Hayes, 30, took place within the city limits, thus the NOPD “exercises original jurisdiction” over the investigation. We all create our right and wrong’. His lawyer, John Fuller, has said, however, that he had a “strong suspicion” Will may have been “under the influence of some kind of mind-altering substance” that night.
Thomson alleged that Hayes showed “no remorse” while firing on the couple.
‘It will go to the ultimate true narrative of this case, which is different than what was initially laid out in print, television and social media, ‘ Fuller said.
“It would be safe to say that not only did my client feel threatened but citizens that were out there on that block felt threatened as well”, Fuller said.
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The lawyer representing the man who shot Will Smith chose that same day for the launching of an offensive against the charges Cardell Hayes now faces.
