By Alisha Dixon
After four days, the Louisiana sheriff announced the arrest of the man accused of shooting and killing former NFL player Joe McKnight.
The incident, allegedly, stems from a road rage dispute that occurred last Thursday.
Ronald Gasser, 54, was arrested and charged with manslaughter.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said “we collectively came together and decided that we were prepared to draft an arrest warrant for the arrest of Mr. Gasser.”
“Justice has no time period. Justice is not a sprint, it is a marathon. These investigations are marathons. Our arrest is only as good as a prosecution.”
Normand said evidence is being gathered and over 160 interviews have been conducted.
“We identified 260 folks that we had an interest in talking to based on license plate recognition camera hits of multiple cameras,” he said. “We talked to over 70 business owners in an attempt to retrieve video.”
A spokesman for the McKnight family said “the family is distressed, distraught.”
“This tragedy is something that changes all of our lives so dramatically,” the statement said. “We are in the process of trying to deal with the grief and what we need to go through legally. We want to give Joe his just due.”
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