Will Smith from The Saints\ OSU Buckeyes killed in New Orleans tonight (UPDATE: Man found GUILTY)
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DonKnock
KPJ Gonna Save Us
Yeah, doubt this happened in the 2 seconds it took for him to drive off
that's the weirdest explanation
It's ... uh ... not that weird at all.
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Still no charges in the shooting of Smith's wife 
Cardell Hayes' attorney asks NOPD to withdraw from Will Smith case
The attorney for Cardell Hayes, the man accused of killing former Saints player Will Smith, has sent a letter to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu accusing the police department of misconduct and asking it be withdraw from the Smith investigation.
An NOPD spokesman said the investigation has been fair and the department will remain in the case.
Attorney John Fuller sent the letter to Landrieu and NOPD Chief Michael Harrison, asking for Louisiana State Police or the FBI to take over the investigation of Smith's death. Smith was gunned down after a traffic crash late April 9 in the Lower Garden District. Hayes was charged with second-degree murder.
The letter said the defense has "a grave lack of faith in the honesty and competency" of the NOPD's investigation, citing what it called "factual misstatements from high-ranking" NOPD officials.
The letter did not not detail those alleged misstatements. But Fuller has strongly suggested someone may have tampered with the crime scene. At a press conference Wednesday, he remarked it was "odd" how much time it took NOPD to publicly reveal additional guns were found at the crime scene, including one in Smith's car.
Police said after the shooting that it had recovered one gun, the one authorities said Hayes used to kill Smith and shoot Smith's wife, Racquel. But late Tuesday NOPD said it had recovered two additional weapons, after obtaining a search warrant for the vehicles owned by Smith and Hayes. One weapon was in Smith's car and the other in Hayes' SUV.
Responding to Fuller's letter Friday, NOPD spokesman Tyler Gamble said: "Every homicide in New Orleans deserves a fair, thorough and complete investigation, and that is what we are doing in this case. We will continue to follow the facts wherever they take us."
Fuller's letter was first reported by The Advocate.
This nikka trying to get his Johnny Cochran on.
I am glad NOPD hit him with the
Why the fukk would the FBI or State police take a case that went down in the heart of NO?
Professor Mac
Im African not black
Dark Horse
Rookie
He's a young'n, so I'm not gonna lambast him too much...but he's speaking some real stupid shyt...he should sit down for a minute and think about the millions he missed already because he was cut from the same cloth of knucklehead as a lot of the people he's downing in 'his' city.
I'm happy he's turned a corner, but at one point, not that long ago, people were wondering if he'd even get to the NFL. A lot of people in NO (and everywhere) would be in better situations if they had the second/third/fourth/fifth chances Mathieu had.
that's a tailored ass suit
pay attention you dudes who be running around with those extra smedium waiter's jackets
ha ha ha ha
they got Trevor
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who's that sistah?
chosen92GOAT
From a boy to a king
ill will rest in peace
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Most recent video released. You can't really see shyt but you can see people ducking behind a vehicle
The car crash that preceded Will Smith's shooting April 9 appears to have been recorded by a surveillance camera from a business a block away. The footage also shows two people running away from the scene and apparently seeking cover behind a parked vehicle about two minutes after the apparent car crash.
The footage, obtained by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, is not close enough to discern any of the vehicles' passengers, and has no audio. But the video provides the closest images publicly released preceding a confrontation that authorities say ended with Hayes shooting Smith to death and wounding Smith's wife Racquel.
The video, recorded by a business that asked not to be named, has a time stamp mistakenly set two hours ahead. The business owner confirmed the recording provided begins at 11:24 p.m. on April 9.
The video starts by showing a white sedan as it drives down Sophie Wright Place, past the intersection of St. Mary Street, towards downtown. That car is followed by a vehicle matching the description of a Chevrolet Impala police said was occupied by two of Smith's friends.
Using surveillance, witness and staff-produced video, we reconstruct the final minutes of Will Smith's life.
Moments later, a car that appears to be Smith's Mercedes-Benz drives past the camera, immediately followed by Hayes' Hummer. Seconds later, the Hummer appears to come to an abrupt stop, its taillights lurching up and down, apparently after hitting Smith's vehicle, which then hits the Impala.
At 11:26 p.m., just over two minutes after the apparent crash, two people can be seen running away from the accident back towards the surveillance camera. They duck behind a car parked across the street on the riverside of Sophie Wright Place, and remain there for one minute. A person is then seen running toward the scene, and the two people who had sought cover then stand up, at roughly 11:27 p.m., and walk back towards the scene of the crash.
The shooting itself does not appear to be discernible in the video.
At 11:33 p.m., a vehicle that appears to be an unmarked NOPD car drives toward the scene, the video shows. Police logs show the first 911 call reporting the shooting came at 11:29 p.m. and the first police unit arrived at 11:33 p.m.
The crash apparently recorded in this new video was preceded minutes earlier by another car collision involving Smith and Hayes. Police have not provided a location for that incident, but surveillance footage from Juan's Flying Burrito on Magazine Street, located two and a half blocks from where Smith died recorded an apparent hit-and-run in which a car matching Smith's hits the Hummer and drives away.
Hayes' attorney has said his client was following Smith to report the hit-and-run to police, though 911 records show no indication of a call made before the shooting to report an accident in that area.
The car crash that preceded Will Smith's shooting April 9 appears to have been recorded by a surveillance camera from a business a block away. The footage also shows two people running away from the scene and apparently seeking cover behind a parked vehicle about two minutes after the apparent car crash.
The footage, obtained by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, is not close enough to discern any of the vehicles' passengers, and has no audio. But the video provides the closest images publicly released preceding a confrontation that authorities say ended with Hayes shooting Smith to death and wounding Smith's wife Racquel.
The video, recorded by a business that asked not to be named, has a time stamp mistakenly set two hours ahead. The business owner confirmed the recording provided begins at 11:24 p.m. on April 9.
The video starts by showing a white sedan as it drives down Sophie Wright Place, past the intersection of St. Mary Street, towards downtown. That car is followed by a vehicle matching the description of a Chevrolet Impala police said was occupied by two of Smith's friends.
Using surveillance, witness and staff-produced video, we reconstruct the final minutes of Will Smith's life.
Moments later, a car that appears to be Smith's Mercedes-Benz drives past the camera, immediately followed by Hayes' Hummer. Seconds later, the Hummer appears to come to an abrupt stop, its taillights lurching up and down, apparently after hitting Smith's vehicle, which then hits the Impala.
At 11:26 p.m., just over two minutes after the apparent crash, two people can be seen running away from the accident back towards the surveillance camera. They duck behind a car parked across the street on the riverside of Sophie Wright Place, and remain there for one minute. A person is then seen running toward the scene, and the two people who had sought cover then stand up, at roughly 11:27 p.m., and walk back towards the scene of the crash.
The shooting itself does not appear to be discernible in the video.
At 11:33 p.m., a vehicle that appears to be an unmarked NOPD car drives toward the scene, the video shows. Police logs show the first 911 call reporting the shooting came at 11:29 p.m. and the first police unit arrived at 11:33 p.m.
The crash apparently recorded in this new video was preceded minutes earlier by another car collision involving Smith and Hayes. Police have not provided a location for that incident, but surveillance footage from Juan's Flying Burrito on Magazine Street, located two and a half blocks from where Smith died recorded an apparent hit-and-run in which a car matching Smith's hits the Hummer and drives away.
Hayes' attorney has said his client was following Smith to report the hit-and-run to police, though 911 records show no indication of a call made before the shooting to report an accident in that area.
