Judge Lisa Chung ruled after a four-day preliminary hearing in a court in Lancaster north of Los Angeles that there was sufficient evidence for former Raiders defensive end Anthony Smith, 45, to stand trial for the killings that came in a nine-year span beginning the year after his NFL career ended, when prosecutors say he quickly went from terrorizing quarterbacks to a life of very real violence. Smith had already been tried for one of the killings: the 2008 death of Maurilio Ponce, a mechanic found stomped, beaten and shot along a Southern California desert highway in what prosecutors called a business deal gone wrong. A jury deadlocked 8-4 in April in favor of guilt, and in July while awaiting retrial, Smith was charged with the other murders. They include the 1999 killing of Kevin and Ricky Nettles, brothers found shot to death, their bodies dumped about eight miles apart, after they were kidnapped from a Los Angeles car wash. He's also charged in the June 2001 killing of Dennis Henderson, who, along with another man, was kidnapped in Los Angeles by several gunmen. Source: Associated Press
just based off of this article, it doesn't sound like he was just randomly killing people. these all sound like 'deals' gone bad and Smith was the muscle ...................
