re: NOPD logs show no record of 911 call to report hit and run

Its not funny at all. Its pretty straightforward. Even intentional ones are referred to by police as MVAs (motor vehicle accidents).

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One of the first officers to arrive on the Will Smith shooting scene found a semiautomatic Ruger SR45 handgun on the hood of an orange Hummer with one round left in the chamber and an empty magazine, according to an initial police report released Tuesday.

That brief report reveals few new details about the investigation into Smith’s death. But it does state that the weapon – apparently the same one police believe 28-year-old Cardell Hayes used to shoot Smith – came back “not stolen” in a search through the National Crime Information Center.

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MVA isn't just used by police, it's standard terminology for any emergency responders and healthcare workers. It's a pretty universal term to describe a vehicle getting in a wreck... or accident.
What do you call it when a car hits another, or goes off the road, etc?

As for "forced"; Hayes' Hummer was the first vehicle involved in that 3 car accident, it hit Smith's SUV and pushed it into the car in front. If there were no further events following this (i.e. no shooting), the Hummer would be designated as the at-fault vehicle (meaning the Hummer's insurance would pay for any claim by Smith's SUV and at least 50% for the front car). if a prior Hit-and-Run was determined to have happened, I don't think it affects this accident as far as liability (and certainly not as far as the front car).

If you want further explanation of the term "forced", consider this: the 3 car accident was completely caused by the Hummer rear-ending the SUV. If Hayes had simply followed, got Smith's license plate, and then left (as the police and 911 operator would have advised), there would be no second accident at all. So whether or not he intentionally rammed into Smith's SUV (and there seems to be some evidence, at least circumstancial, that he did), he created it by pursuit. Thus, he forced it to happen.

You can get a 12 round mag

or it had 10 rounds and he only fired 9 shots, and one of the rounds went through Will and hit the wife.

not sure if they ever said how many casings they found. or if people just assumed he fired 10x because there were 10 wounds

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or it had 10 rounds and he only fired 9 shots, and one of the rounds went through Will and hit the wife.

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Smith attorney said she was shot twice before Will was ever shot. Even if this isn't the case, I doubt this scenario because of the difference in size of Will and Racquel. She is only is as tall as his shoulder when she's wearing 6" heels.

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most carry their guns loaded. any other way is unamerican.

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right.

but my point is if he did fire 10 shots, then his gun was cocked and then re-loaded with 1 additional bullet before he even got out his car.

who does that?

again, this is all me just spit balling.

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bullets redirect when they pass through someone.

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And they just happened to hit each leg while having enough force to shatter bone, after passing through someone and hitting something while drastically changing direction. If a bullet is being redirected by hitting bone, that's going to take a lot of force away from it, and make it way less likely to leave the body

Seems likely

Negative. That's a shot that hit door from inside when door closed buddy.