NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans police say they plan to add a new charge against the man accused of killing former Buckeye and Saints player Will Smith following a car accident.
A police spokesman said Cardell Hayes will be charged with attempted murder or aggravated battery after Smith’s wife, Racquel, was shot in the leg.
Meanwhile, police and Hayes’ attorney have dismissed the notion that Hayes had targeted Smith because he had been joined at a café on Saturday night by a retired police captain, one of the named defendants in a federal lawsuit Hayes’ family filed after his father was shot to death by police in 2005.