Bills' Raion Hill Gets Carjacked

Tuesday, January 23rd 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

GRETNA, La. (AP) â€” Two gunmen forced Raion Hill of the Buffalo Bills into his car and drove him across a bridge to New Orleans, where another assailant tried to run him over, police said.

Hill's leg was injured but he told the team it was not serious. His agent, Keith Schulefand, described the injury as a bruise.

``I think he's just happy to be alive,'' the agent said Tuesday. ``He didn't want to get shot.''

The club said he spoke with the team's security director.

``He seemed in good spirits, all things considered,'' Bills spokesman Mark Dalton said Tuesday.

Hill, a 24-year-old defensive back, is from New Orleans and played at LSU. He spends his offseason in the New Orleans area.

Col. John Fortunato, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, said the men approached Hill about 7 a.m. Monday outside a restaurant in Gretna, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.

Hill told detectives that the driver â€” called ``Lonnie'' by the other man â€” asked him several times during the drive into New Orleans if he had drugs, Fortunato said.

The men stopped at a cash machine near about three blocks from Hill's high school, Brother Martin, but could not withdraw money. A black car then pulled next to Hill's and followed it, Fortunato said.

He said Hill was ordered out of his car, and the second driver tried to run over him. The men also stole a small amount of money and personal items from Hill.

Before going to the restaurant, Hill had been at a New Orleans nightclub, where a man who looked similar to one of the carjackers walked up to him and said something about Hill's 1999 Yukon, Fortunato said.

New Orleans police said they do not have any information about what happened.

Hill played in eight games this season for the Bills, making 19 solo tackles and assisting on two others.

He joined Buffalo as a rookie free agent in 1999 and was cut at the end of training camp. He was added to the practice squad for the last nine weeks of that season.