Suspect in Smith shooting described as 'mild-mannered' guy
The man accused of gunning down above Saints arresting end Will Smith is a soft-spoken, admiring aggregation baton who consistently calls earlier women "ma'am," his pastor and his top academy drillmaster said.As Smith's family, accompany and admirers appear to grips with the bounded favorite's death, those in Cardell Hayes' apple were accepting agitation reconciling the man they've accepted with the accusations adjoin him.
Hayes, 28, is in bastille with a band set at $1 million, accused of battlefront eight bullets forth the larboard ancillary of Smith's back. One ammo entered Smith's larboard top aback and out his appropriate shoulder; the added seven lodged in Smith's body, according to a coroner's report. Smith's wife, Racquel, was attempt in both legs.
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As she crawled away, Hayes stood over Smith's physique and yelled, Smith ancestors advocate Peter Thomson said Wednesday.
Thomson said Hayes' Hummer had chock-full abruptly Saturday night and Smith collection on accomplished because cartage in his car didn't accept the two cars had touched. The Hummer again rammed Smith's Mercedes SUV harder abundant to blast the aback windshield, he said. That led to a battle in the street.
But Hayes' attorney, John Fuller, acknowledged that description, adage his applicant was not the aggressor and that a attestant saw a gun in Smith's control during the confrontation.
A pastor who has gone to the aforementioned abbey as Hayes back brand academy said he's consistently accepted the above semi-pro football amateur as a fun, apprehensive person.
"Sometimes his admeasurement could be deceiving," said Sha'Teek Nobles of My Redeemer Missionary Baptist Church. "He's a nice guy. He's not hot-tempered. He's mild-mannered. That's who he is. That's who he's been back we were growing up."
Lee Green, who accomplished Hayes in top school, remembered him as airy and quiet. "I would say added of a mama's boy," Green said. He said Hayes' mother consistently brought him to school, to summer practices and to apprenticeship sessions.
Hayes got forth able-bodied with anybody on the aggregation and was a baton during his inferior and chief years, said Green, who now runs a academy with about 600 adolescent students. He said Hayes was a part of the state's top 50 arresting players his chief year and a amount of schools recruited him.
In the abatement of 2005, Hayes enrolled at Southeastern Louisiana University in adjacent Hammond but never played football there, university agent Rene Abadie said Wednesday.
The day afterwards Christmas 2005, badge attempt and dead Hayes' father, Anthony Hayes, afterwards he allegedly threatened them with a 3-inch knife. Several bystanders had video of badge surrounding the ancient Hayes as he absolved down the average of St. Charles Avenue. Although several assemblage told badge "that Mr. Hayes had a history of brainy illness," six admiral pepper-sprayed him and again attempt him at atomic nine times, according to a federal accusation filed by Hayes in June 2006.
The accusation asked for $4 million, bisected of it in castigating damages. The city-limits acclimatized out of cloister in September 2011, about the aforementioned time Hayes chock-full demography classes at Southeastern Louisiana.
That wasn't Hayes' alone cloister experience.
In backward 2010, he was answerable with possessing codeine and biologic paraphernalia, and with illegally accustomed a weapon while possessing an actionable drug.
A antecedent advocate for Hayes withdrew a appeal arrangement in 2012 afterwards a adjudicator bedevilled Hayes to 5 years in prison. With Fuller apery him, Hayes eventually got a abeyant six-month book afterwards argumentation accusable in 2014 to illegally accustomed a weapon and possessing biologic paraphernalia.
Both Nobles and Green yield affair with Arizona Cardinals' assurance Tyrann Mathieu's tweeted description of Hayes as "a antisocial ... coward."
"He's absolutely not the monster that he's been painted," Nobles said.
Fuller has said Hayes is adopting his 5-year-old son, and Nobles said he's aflame about fatherhood.
"It would be difficult for me to see him authoritative a move like this that would befoul that," Nobles said.
Green said he doesn't like accoutrements and doesn't anticipate Hayes should accept had one. But he said he had a harder time assertive Hayes could accept dead anyone.
"The Cardell that I knew — the adolescent man I knew — was a quiet, supportive, affable adolescent man. But if you get angry, assertive things happen, and I don't absolve any act of abandon against anyone," he said.
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