NEW ORLEANS -- The suspect in the death of Will Smith said he shot him in self-defense, fearing for his life after the former New Orleans Saints star hit him several times and then went to get a gun.
"It was self-defense," Cardell Hayes can be heard telling detectives hours after a car crash led to angry words and gunfire.
One of those detectives, Tindell Murdock, testified that he saw no signs of Hayes having been injured that night, but conceded that he couldn't prove otherwise.
A recording of that police interview was played in court Friday, along with a 911 recording made moments after the fatal shots.