NEW ORLEANS -- Twelve hours after Will Smith’s killer was convicted of manslaughter, another New Orleans football star, Joe McKnight, was laid to rest less than three miles away.
Both of them shot and killed after apparent road rage incidents. Two more senseless acts in a city plagued by gun violence.
“New Orleans has had enough of it,” said George Tucker, the attorney for McKnight’s family who is hoping that McKnight’s alleged killer, Ronald Gasser, will eventually face the same punishment that Smith’s killer, Cardell Hayes, received.