Former Saints DE Will Smith dead after he and wife shot in road-rage attack

[Gman]

Former Saints DE Will Smith dead after he and wife shot in road-rage attack

A 30-year-old man and a gun are in custody, authorities announced.

...at least they caught the gun that did this.

[ray1970]

I wonder if the gun is going to face charges?

[SNAFU]

Sad,senseless,,,prayers for the Smith family

Never saw a firearm run away from a crime.

Only evil men with bad intentions run.

[rondog]

Bunch of nitwit comments there, as usual. I didn't see if the article said what actually happened. It looks like 3 vehicles there, perhaps Smith was in the middle, got hit from the rear, and que-balled the car in front? I bet the shooter came from the car in front?

[fitz19d]

CNN tells it a little better. Best I gather is just he got rear ended. Driver of hummer got out and they verbally sparred before hummer guy pulled the gun and started shooting.

[blacklabel]

Rest in peace Will Smith. You did some good movies.

I died laughing. Well done.

[Duman]

CNN tells it a little better. Best I gather is just he got rear ended. Driver of hummer got out and they verbally sparred before hummer guy pulled the gun and started shooting.

So...he got a hummer in the rear, then got shot?

[BushMasterBoy]

Poor bastard, at least the Pope can make him a saint again...

[funkymonkey1111]

Where's Rev. Sharpton?

[Jer]

So a guy does the accidental rear-ending and gets out shooting angry towards innocent black man who was out for Sunday ice cream with his wife who calmly exited his vehicle to exchange insurance information? That story seems lacking some important details.

As long as we're making our minds up based on limited information I'd say it's more likely a man was rear-ended and the shock from it coupled with the anger that his ride was damaged caused him to get out aggressively and approach in a less-than-friendly manner the person who hit him.

I'm reserving judgement on anyone involved until we know the full story. Still no way to know if Will Smith attacked the guy who hit him and the guy in the Hummer (lots of people want to demonize and stereotype someone driving a Hummer) felt his life was in danger (you ever see a NFL linebacker coming at you in anger?) and shot out of self defense. Could be he was the aggressor. We don't know. What I do know is that there are countless people taking up sides with little to no details already and social media serves to give credibility to their blind claims. "Poor innocent black man gunned down by evil gun" is what I'm hearing out of New Orleans in the face of a complete lack of any facts.