The crash set off a row in which police said Mr Hayes shot and killed Smith and wounded his wife, Racquel. Fuller said the evidence will not support the second-degree murder charge.
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Smith and Hayes “exchanged words” before Hayes shot the former New Orleans Saints defensive captain multiple times and shot Smith’s wife in the right leg, police said.
John Fuller, Hayes’ attorney, told reporters after Hayes’ brief court appearance on Sunday that his client had a different version of events.
Fuller said Hayes was the victim of a hit-and-run just moments before and was chasing the cars to get their license plate numbers.
However, Harrison said that he can not confirm if Smith and Hayes knew each other before the incident.
One possible reason: a former police officer who dined with Smith shortly before the shooting was one of the officers Hayes sued in connection with his father’s death.
“I don’t know how he felt about guns”, Payton said.
The tragic death of former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith has affected people across the country, both fans and professional athletes alike. But Green noted that until after the shooting, Green was unaware that Hayes had struck a plea deal in 2014 in an illegal weapons possession case stemming from a 2010 arrest. “He was a team leader”, Henderson said.
The video shows the chaos and sirens at the scene after Will Smith was killed Saturday night and Racquel Smith was shot in the leg. The team offered condolences to Smith’s family and friends, and praised him as an example of the city’s “overwhelming kindness and generosity”. “Such a senseless tragedy”, Brees wrote in a post on Twitter. “They have no choice but to run the streets and hang around people that don’t have their best interest and that’s what’s really getting to me”. Baehr got on the ground with her, and they prayed together before paramedics arrived.
Born in Queens on July 4, 1981, Smith lived in the borough until he was four, when he moved to Utica, NY to live with his grandmother after his mother died of breast cancer.
Hayes was still on the scene.
“Two hundred years from now, they’re going to look back and say, ‘What was that madness about?'” Payton said.
Prosecutors have 60 days to decide whether to bring the second-degree murder charge against Hayes, who had a hearing scheduled Monday to inform the magistrate’s court of his permanent attorney.
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“I went back home a few weeks ago to bury my grandmother”, Mathieu said during an appearance with Fox Sports Radio’s Mike Hill and Kirk Morrison (via NOLA.com). The news would have been made public in May.
