Alistair C. Smith was 24 and a shift manager at a Sheetz when he was killed while waiting for his laundry in a Locust Grove laundromat on the morning of February 13, 2018. He had returned to sit and use his phone shortly before 9:00 a.m. after placing clothes in a dryer. A man who had followed him to the laundromat retrieved a bolt-action rifle from his vehicle, entered, and fired a large-caliber shot from about seven feet, knocking Smith from his chair. The shooter then walked around a table and shot Smith twice more in the head. The entire attack appears on a sixteen-second surveillance video; two women found the scene about twenty minutes later and reported it to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators identified Gregory Humphries as the suspect and took him into custody later that day. In court Humphries pleaded guilty, saying he had followed Smith intending to confront him and that the rifle initially went off as he leveled it, then that he decided to continue. The Commonwealth showed the surveillance video and crime-scene photographs; after a colloquy the plea was accepted and Humphries received the maximum prison term allowed under the plea agreement, within the high end of the discretionary guidelines.

Did anyone who knew Alistair or who was in Locust Grove that morning see anything that could add context to what happened?