Latest in Baton Rouge fatal shooting: Attorneys say LSU football players acted in self-defense

Two LSU football players were questioned for hours in a shooting Saturday afternoon that killed an unidentified man, but the athletes were later released without arrest, according to Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. L'Jean McKneely.

While no firm details of how the shooting happened were given, attorneys for Clyde Edwards-Helaire, a top LSU running back, and Jared Small, a walk-on linebacker, say the shooting happened in self-defense. McKneely said two guns were recovered from the scene of the shooting.

"We believe this is an act of self-defense and the evidence will show that," said Christopher Murell, one of the three attorneys representing Edwards-Helaire and Small, who are also both graduates of Catholic High School in Baton Rouge.

The man was found dead in the back seat of a white truck Saturday afternoon in the 2900 block of 68th Avenue in the Scotlandville area, McKneely said. Edwards-Helaire and Small had also been in the truck and called 911 after the shooting. The two waited at the scene for police and cooperated.

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