On the morning of July 23, 2018, 82-year-old Jerry Scott was found dead in his Alexandria, Virginia, home on East Reed Avenue. Police responded to a call and discovered Scott with trauma to his upper body; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators determined Scott had been shot while in bed on July 22, 2018, sustaining three gunshot wounds, and then attacked with a bladed weapon.

Authorities identified Scott’s grandson, Dallas Jermaine Smith, then 32, as the primary suspect. Smith had been evicted from his grandfather’s home about a month earlier; prosecutors say that eviction contributed to his motive. Smith, a convicted felon prohibited from legally buying firearms since 2009, allegedly bought parts online and assembled a 9mm semi-automatic pistol used in the attack.

Smith was arrested and indicted in September 2018 on five felony counts including first-degree murder, armed burglary, two counts for firearm use during a felony, and possession of a firearm by a felon. In February 2019 he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of murder and was awaiting sentencing.

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