

"I was like, 'Oh, my God … please get me out of here, this has nothing to do with me. She said it would have hit her if she hadn't moved. She felt glass shatter into the car, sensed something coming toward her head and ducked.

But Smith said he didn't want to go jail, tried to go on Facebook Live, and said, "I wanna die … I'm going to die." Askar obeyed and told Smith to do the same. … I never got a felon vibe or anything."Īfter they had a lunch date at Stella's Fish Cafe, they returned to his vehicle in the Uptown parking ramp across the street when "all of a sudden like 50 police cars" came up to them and officers ordered them to put their hands up. He would just brush it off and tell me the case is dismissed and stuff like that. Smith told her he had a little trouble with police, "but he never told me everything. Askar said she met Smith through her best friend and they had been dating for three weeks. Hours after the shooting, Askar gave an interview to BCA Special Agent Michelle Frascone in audio released as part of the case file. The BCA said Wednesday evening that it temporarily removed the case file from the internet because three nonpublic names were not redacted. There is not video recording of the shooting itself. The case file does not yet contain body and dash camera footage from officers responding after the shooting because the videos have not been fully redacted, said BCA spokeswoman Jill Oliveira. The file includes photos of Smith's bullet-riddled Maserati and a handgun next to the driver's seat. Marshals Service-led task force while they attempted to arrest him on a warrant after he missed his sentencing for illegal possession of a firearm. Smith, 32, was shot and killed June 3 by members of a U.S.
