Here's how man accused of killing Will Smith is defending himself

Here's how man accused of killing Will Smith is defending himself

Here's how man accused of killing Will Smith is defending himself, There was declared to be a "second line" for Will Smith actuality at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. It would accept been a affective agreeable accolade to the collapsed New Orleans Saints amateur in the streets of this city. Instead, afterwards a day of rain that adjourned the tribute, there was abandoned a account appointment accustomed by the advocate for the man who allegedly attempt him dead.

John Fuller stood abaft a coffer of microphones on the aforementioned artery area the Superdome sits and batten of a accessible corpuscle buzz video of the account arch up to Saturday night's shooting. He aswell mentioned "untoward activity" allegedly witnessed afterwards the cutting – a accessible association of the New Orleans Police Department. And he declared the moment if the man accused of second-degree murder, Cardell Hayes, accomplished who was killed.

It concluded a day of acrimonious words – bifold account conferences that ratcheted up the address but did annihilation to abate the sadness. One man is gone and addition is in jail, and their accouchement will accept to appear to agreement with that somehow.

For those absorbed in the acknowledged aspect of this, Wednesday brought affluence to ponder. The advocate for the Smith family, Peter Thomson, captivated alternating aboriginal in the day, advertence that Smith had been attempt up to eight times, and a coroner's address declared Smith was hit seven times in the back. His wife, Racquel, had been attempt alert – already in anniversary leg. She charcoal in a bounded hospital, recovering.

The advancement was that Smith was in retreat afterwards a car blow on Saturday night, and may accept been attention his wife from an affronted man with angry intentions. Thomson declared the cutting as "a barbarous murder" and again alleged Hayes "the killer."

Asked afterwards in the day how his applicant could explain, let abandoned defend, that abounding gunshots in a man's aback as self-defense, Fuller acicular to a acknowledged case in which a man attempt a "kid" who was active abroad and was still advised to be attention himself. That led to a aftereffect question, on whether this was a "stand-your-ground case." Fuller replied that it was a "not accusable accurately case."

It is already a circuitous case, abiding to get added so if there is absolutely a corpuscle buzz video of whatever preceded the shooting. There is altercation over whether Hayes' Hummer was hit by Smith's Mercedes, and accordingly there is altercation over whether Hayes was afterward Smith to get added advice or to get some array of artery justice. Although Smith's ancestors advocate says the antecedent beachcomber of astriction was diffused, Hayes' ancillary may affirmation words were announced to announce the altercation was about to escalate. That brings us to the catechism of how abounding accoutrements were complex and whether they were visible. Thomson says Smith never brandished, or even touched, the weapon in his car. Fuller suggests there may accept been added than one weapon at the scene, and said a attestant saw a gun in Smith's possession.

Then there's the agrarian agenda in all this: Fuller's accusation that a attestant saw some "very adverse activity" afterwards the shooting. He wouldn't accord details, but said the attestant "fears for her life."

"I just acquisition it odd," Fuller said, "that in a assassination a gun allegedly isn't recovered until canicule after."

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