The day after Christmas 2005, police shot and killed Hayes' father, Anthony Hayes, after he allegedly threatened them with a 3-inch knife. Several bystanders had video of police surrounding the elder Hayes as he walked down the median of St. Charles Avenue. Although several witnesses told police "that Mr. Hayes had a history of mental illness," six officers pepper-sprayed him and then shot him at least nine times, according to a federal lawsuit filed by Hayes in June 2006.
Green said he doesn't like guns and doesn't think Hayes should have had one,Jerseys From China. But he said he had a hard time believing Hayes could have killed anyone.
The lawsuit asked for $4 million, half of it in punitive damages. The city settled out of court in September 2011, about the same time Hayes stopped taking classes at Southeastern Louisiana.
In late 2010, he was charged with possessing codeine and drug paraphernalia, and with illegally carrying a weapon while possessing an illegal drug.
But Hayes' attorney, John Fuller, disputed that description, saying his client was not the aggressor and that a witness saw a gun in Smith's possession during the confrontation.
"He's definitely not the monster that he's been painted," Nobles said.
A pastor who has gone to the same church as Hayes since grade school said he's always known the former semi-pro football player as a fun, humble person.
"The Cardell that I knew — the young man I knew — was a quiet, supportive, jovial young man. But when you get angry, certain things happen,Cheap Jerseys, and I don't justify any act of violence toward anyone," he said.
In the fall of 2005, Hayes enrolled at Southeastern Louisiana University in nearby Hammond but never played football there,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, university spokesman Rene Abadie said Wednesday.
Both Nobles and Green take issue with Arizona Cardinals' safety Tyrann Mathieu's tweeted description of Hayes as "a hating ... coward."
Lee Green, who coached Hayes in high school, remembered him as cheerful and quiet. "I would say more of a mama's boy," Green said. He said Hayes' mother regularly brought him to school, to summer practices and to tutoring sessions.
Fuller has said Hayes is raising his 5-year-old son,Authentic NFL Jerseys From China, and Nobles said he's excited about fatherhood.
A previous attorney for Hayes withdrew a plea bargain in 2012 after a judge sentenced Hayes to five years in prison. With Fuller representing him, Hayes eventually got a suspended six-month sentence after pleading guilty in 2014 to illegally carrying a weapon and possessing drug paraphernalia.
"Sometimes his size 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 since we were growing up."
As she crawled away, Hayes stood over Smith's body and yelled, Smith family attorney Peter Thomson said Wednesday.
Hayes, 28, is in jail with a bond set at $1 million, accused of firing eight bullets along the left side of Smith's back. One bullet entered Smith's left upper back and out his right shoulder; the other seven lodged in Smith's body, according to a coroner's report. Smith's wife, Racquel, was shot in both legs.
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That wasn't Hayes' only court experience.
Thomson said Hayes' Hummer had stopped abruptly Saturday night and Smith drove on past because passengers in his car didn't believe the two vehicles had touched. The Hummer then rammed Smith's Mercedes SUV hard enough to shatter the back windshield, he said. That led to a confrontation in the street.
"It would be difficult for me to see him making a move like this that would tarnish that," Nobles said.
Hayes got along well with everyone on the team and was a leader during his junior and senior years, said Green, who now runs a school with about 600 younger students. He said Hayes was among the state's top 50 defensive players his senior year and a number of schools recruited him.
As Smith's family, friends and fans come to grips with the local favorite's death, those in Cardell Hayes' sphere were having trouble reconcil

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By Enid Joaquin“Disappointed”, is how Linden Interim Management Committee Chairman Orrin Gordon has summed up his reaction to a correspondence he is in receipt of from Prime Minister Samuel Hinds on a proposal for the rehabilitation of twelve ‘critical’ bridges along the Linden to Lethem road.The letter was in response to a proposal by Gordon and former Regional Chairman Mortimer Mingo in the year 2010, in which they outlined what was required to refurbish the bridges to ascertain their capacity to withstand a maximum sustained load of 60 tons.According to the proposal which was seen by this newspaper, an inspection team, which included Mr Paul Jones, an eminent welding contractor in Linden, with wide experience in construction projects, including the fabrication of pontoons for the Demerara Harbour bridge and repairs to the Mackenzie/Wismar bridge, was dispatched to the Linden to Lethem road, to assess which of the 39 bridges needed immediate attention.Based on his assessment, Jones had advised that twelve of the bridges needed urgent attention.He also concluded that the current timber bridges of three or four 2’x12’ greenheart planks on each side was inadequate to sustain the load of 60 tons. The average length of most of these bridges is reportedly 29 feet.Other bridges in the savannahs, which incorporate both steel and wood in their designs, were also found to be inadequate.According to the proposal, the new bridges should be constructed of steel beams, readily available for sale at the OMAI wharf at an approximate cost of US$10 per foot.The beam’s specifications are 36″x12″x3/4″ thickness, 24″x12″ x5/8″, 12″x12″x1/2 “thickness and channel iron 12”x3″x1/2″ thickness.The proposal also pointed out that a large quantity of railroad lines stockpiled in Linden, under the aegis of the Linmine Secretariat. would be used in the construction of reinforcement for the bridges, rendering them capable of withstanding loads of up to 82 tons, and the ready availability of these materials allows for expediting of the project.Further, it was proposed, that most of the construction be undertaken in Linden, where the requisite skills exist to prefabricate most of the components for the bridges.The completed components would then be transported to the sites, which would have been prepared with revetment work and the establishment of necessary bypasses, the proposal stated.While the timeline stipulated for the execution and completion of the twelve bridges was four months, it was further pointed out that the more critical ones would have been the first to be rehabilitated, and these would have been completed in three months.ResponsePrime Minister Samuel Hinds, in his response to Gordon regarding the proposal for the rehabilitation of the twelve bridges, noted,Cheap Jerseys 2018, “your letter dated 2013-06-10 has been studied and I can assure you that I and all members of government want to have the Linden to Lethem road, inclusive of the bridges, advanced as early as possible.“The limiting constraint is the availability of money, bearing in mind the calls all across our country for improvements of roads, and very much so,NFL Jerseys From China, our growing network of hinterland roads.Over the years government has been allocating as much as it reasonably could, some $250 to $300million per year, for specified road and bridge works, along the Linden/Lethem road, awarded through competitive bids.”The Prime Minister further said that if Government had the money, they would ‘usefully spend’ $3 -$5million per mile per year on the Linden to Lethem road, which is some 265 miles long. That expenditure, he pointed out, would add up to some $795 M to $1325 M per year, but that amount could not yet be allocated,NFL Jerseys China, without ignoring other ‘critical needs’.“Many persons, including myself and the government, would like to have an asphaltic concrete road with reinforced concrete or steel bridges”, the Prime minister stated in his letter.Hinds added that since 2009, the Guyana government has been steadily engaged with their Brazilian counterparts in talks about the issue of having a paved road, and that in the first half of 2013,Cheap China Jerseys, it was one of the subjects addressed during four meetings between the two sides.He alluded to a newspaper article of 2013-07-12 in which there was a report on an agreement signed between Guyana and Brazil ‘in the margins of the Mercosur Conference”, which included arrangements for a detailed feasibility study to construct an asphaltic concrete ?road from Lethem to Linden with pre stressed concrete bridges, including a bridge across the Kurupukari.A realistic estimate of the aforementio