Ex-Saint Will Smith shot to death in New Orleans, coroner confirms

[Eugene]

Source: The Times-Picayune

Ex-Saint Will Smith shot to death in New Orleans, coroner confirms

By Wilborn P. Nobles III, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on April 10, 2016 at 12:55 AM, updated April 10, 2016 at 4:01 AM

Will Smith, the former Saints defensive end, was killed and a woman was wounded in a late-night shooting in New Orleans on Saturday (April 9), authorities said.

Orleans Parish Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Rouse confirmed Smith was the fatal victim in the incident. Police said Smith's wife was wounded and was taken to a hospital. The shooter is being questioned, police said.

The double shooting took place around 11:29 p.m., near the intersection of Sophie Wright Place and Felicity Street in the Lower Garden District, NOPD said.

Police said Smith, 34, and his wife were traveling eastbound on Sophie Wright Place when their Mercedes Benz SUV was rear-ended by a Hummer H2. The collision caused the Smith's vehicle to hit a Chevrolet Impala traveling along the same street.

Smith and the driver of the Hummer "exchanged words, at which time the driver of the Hummer produced a handgun and shot the male victim (Smith) multiple times and his 34-year-old wife twice in the right leg," said NOPD spokesman Juan Barnes.

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[Turbineguy]

1. More lives wasted and ruined.

On my Facebook feed there was posting about a road rage incident. This was one of the responses:

"I tell all the young people for whom I care---"Don't do anything; don't honk; don't make eye contact; don't mouth any words; stay alive!" We should not have to teach people this but in the current gun-crazed society, we must! Very sad..."

An armed society is not a polite society, it is a cowed society. The purpose of a heavily armed society is not freedom or security, it is to instill fear and obedience. And it seems to be working.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Rest in peace, Will Smith.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Senseless, fucking senseless

signed,
This New York Giants Fan

[KamaAina]

4. He will live forever as the guy who leveled Pey-Pey

allowing Tracy Porter to complete the pick six and nail down the Saints' first and only SB win.

[KamaAina]

5. Methinks this lowlife would have had second thoughts about challenging Will to a fistfight.

Unfortunately, he had a gun.

[bluedigger]

6. Just awful.

I hope they find the money to provide him a proper defense and quick finding of guilty.

[bluedigger]

7. There's more to the story.

From 2011:

The city of New Orleans has agreed to settle a pair of lawsuits over the death of a knife-wielding, mentally unstable man who was shot by police after he argued with a pharmacy employee, a city spokesman said Monday. Ryan Berni, a spokesman for Mayor Mitch Landrieu, said details of the agreements were being finalized but would not be disclosed.

A trial was scheduled to start Monday for the federal lawsuits filed on behalf of two children of 38-year-old Anthony Hayes, who was shot nine times and killed by officers on a New Orleans street in December 2005.

...

The Justice Department opened several probes of shootings by New Orleans police officers in Katrina's aftermath, but Hayes' death wasn't one of them.

The lawsuit filed on behalf of Hayes' son, Cardell, had sought $4 million in damages. A separate lawsuit filed on behalf of his daughter, Tyiece Baptiste-Howard, sought unspecified damages.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/09/new_orleans_reaches_settlement.html

I guess he got enough money for a Hummer and a gun.

[47of74]

8. Fucking ugh.

[bigwillq]

9. Just awful.