Another road rage incident leaves NO Saints former player shot dead, wife injured

[mnhtnbb]

Will Smith, former New Orleans Saints defensive end was shot dead in the incident.

New Orleans Police said Smith's vehicle was hit in the rear by a Hummer H2 while it was driving in the city at around 11:30 p.m. That caused Smith's Mercedes to hit the back of a Chevrolet, police added.

"The male victim and the driver of the Hummer exchanged words at which time the driver of the Hummer produced a handgun and shot the male victim multiple times," police said in a statement.

Smith's wife, 33, was shot twice in the leg. Police said Smith died at the scene but his wife survived and has been hospitalized.

Police said the 30-year-old Hummer driver was in custody and that a gun had been recovered but did not name the suspect.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/will-smith-former-new-orleans-saints-defensive-end-fatally-shot-n553651


This is awful. Just awful. Three more children left without a father because some jerk has access to a gun and uses it when angry.

[Ilsa]

1. Another paranoid asshole with a gun.

I hope someone like this is never released from prison.

[Takket]

2. Is Louisiana a stand your ground state?

[localroger]

5. Yes

Although I doubt SYG applies to your car especially when you caused the accident.

[Marrah_G]

3. OMG- that is terrible.

To many guns in the hands of screwed up people.

[2naSalit]

4. A case of affluenza?

Who drives a Hummer? and has a gun. I know there are some Hummer drivers who think that the vehicle makes them invincible like they are pretending they are in an MRAP with a cause.

Our society is such an f'ing mess, maybe it's best for the planet and all other life forms if we died out and soon... IMHO.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. I understand the disgust, and our society IS in a mess... BUT...

I'd like the chance to think that if we humans SERIOUSLY look at what we've done and immediately do something to STOP the course of senseless things (war, guns, distribution to starve out the middle class and increase poverty, and the persistently corporate control those), that WE STOP THIS NOW.

This earth deserves a better evolution of the species in charge. Let's get what's in control to die out.

[2naSalit]

10. That would be

the desired outcome of the election cycle we are in but I am afraid we've crossed the tipping point for our species such that we have already lost the survival of the species argument.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. I guess you and Stephen Hawkings are in agreement...

But, as my sig line notes, I'm not giving up...

[Angel Martin]

17. not affluenza

more like a convicted felon with previous weapons offences was at it again.


http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/04/cardell_hayes_booked_with_seco.html

[MillennialDem]

6. Guns are so awesome, aren't they?

[LadyHawkAZ]

7. Butbut it could have happened with a knife too!!!1!

People kill with knives too!!!1! And what about McDonalds???? Obesity blah blah blah etc.

I just want to get this whole argument out of the way right now, since we all know it's coming:
Hummerdude would totally have attacked
a 6'3", 300lb
football player
with a knife,
or a cheeseburger,
or something something talking point,
because freedum 2nd Amendment guns don't kill people murica.
Everyone got that?

[2naSalit]

11. Mostly

only in the minds of the deluded.

[Democat]

13. Violent fights between angry males happen in every country in the world

I don't think you can blame America, Bush, or Obama for this one.

[DinahMoeHum]

14. Senseless, just fucking senseless

signed,
This New York Giants Fan

[Egnever]

16. Hummer driver

Nothing I hate worse than those planet killers. Not surprising that an owner of one of those monstrosities had no regard for the life of someone else.