LOS ANGELES — Former Oakland Raider Anthony Wayne Smith appeared in court Friday to face a murder charge in the 2008 beating and shooting death of a man in northern Los Angeles County, authorities said.

Smith, 43, of Fontana, who played defensive end for the Raiders in Los Angeles and Oakland from 1991 to 1998, is one of three men charged in the killing.

Smith was arrested and was being held on $1 million bail.

Maurilla Ponce, 31, was beaten and shot several times on Oct. 7, 2008 in Lancaster, and his body was dumped near the Antelope Valley poppy fields some 11 miles away.

After a Sheriff’s Department investigation of more than two years, a felony complaint naming Smith was filed.