Sheriff Defends Delayed Arrest in Slaying of Ex-NFL Player Joe McKnight
By EMILY SHAPIRO
Dec 6, 2016, 2:31 PM ET
A Louisiana sheriff today defended his department's four-day delay in arresting Ronald Gasser, the man accused of shooting and killing former NFL player Joe McKnight in an apparent road rage incident.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said Gasser's statement shortly after McKnight was killed was "replete with statements talking about his fear of McKnight making threatening statements and otherwise, and that's why, on Thursday evening, only faced with and only having Mr. Gasser's statement, that we thought it was best that an arrest not be made for strategic reasons, until we could get other witnesses."
In Louisiana, Normand said, there are "very forward-leaning, stand-your-ground, self-defense, justifiable homicide laws" that, he said, create for “us an obligation to make sure that we get it right.”
Gasser was arrested and charged with manslaughter Monday, according to Jefferson Parish records, four days after the Thursday afternoon shooting.
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McKnight's death marks the second time an NFL player was shot and killed in a motorist incident in the New Orleans area this year. In April, former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith was fatally shot while driving in New Orleans's Lower Garden District. The trial for Smith's accused killer begins today.
ABC News' Abbas Khan and Carol McKinley contributed to this report.
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Not only does one wonder what this altercation is about, road rage?, this is as the last quoted paragraph indicates, the 2nd NFL player killed in the New Orleans area this year in a traffic altercation.
