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I'm not sure they'll get 1st-degree murder, but 2nd-degree seems very likely. Smith game ample ammunition to the prosecution with his statements to police:
“I shoot him in the face. I want him dead.”
“I was far over the edge."
“I was no longer willing to live in fear.”
This isn't like other recent cases, in which the events aren't clear. Smith made an audio recording of the shooting, and he was quite explicit in his statements to police.
If anything, this resembles the Bernhard Goetz case more than anything in recent memory.
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