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The Latest: Hayes' lawyer says witness saw Smith with gun (The Associated Press)

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting death of football star Will Smith (all times local):

7:15 p.m.

A lawyer for the man accused of shooting Will Smith says a witness saw the retired football star with a gun the night he died.

During a news conference Wednesday, John Fuller questioned assertions earlier Wednesday by Smith's lawyer that Smith did not brandish his weapon during the altercation with Cardell Hayes.

After police had earlier reported confiscating one weapon at the scene, Fuller suggested that another weapon was at the scene.

Wednesday he questioned how his client would have known about another weapon if ''someone didn't brandish that firearm?