PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh man has been ordered to stand trial on homicide and other charges in the fatal shooting of a former Slippery Rock University football player.

Zachary Sheridan, who last played football at SRU in 2011, died after being shot Aug. 3 near the Original Hot Dog Shop in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh.

Blaine Jones, the attorney for 22-year-old Isiah Smith, maintains Smith was defending himself. But police and prosecutors repeated Friday during a court hearing that surveillance video shows Sheridan, walking or running away outside the Original Hot Dog Shop and being shot in the back.

Still, Jones says Sheridan twice punched Smith before that, leaving his client with a concussion.

But Sheridan’s friends contend that happened only after Smith waived a gun and made threats when the two groups began fighting. That began when Sheridan’s group made some remarks to a woman Smith knew.

Smith of Lincoln-Lemington remains jailed without bond in the shooting.

After being shot, Sheridan was taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital where he died. He was 24.

He played linebacker and was a team captain at SRU.