On March 16, 2012, the bodies of 43-year-old Eddie Arnold Ezzell III and his wife, Katherine Parker Ezzell were found inside their recreational vehicle at the Davis Mobile Home and RV Park in Newport News, Virginia. A relative who went to check on them discovered both had been shot in the head at close range; Eddie suffered two gunshot wounds and Katherine one.

Newport News Police identified 32-year-old Brian Thomas Smith of Hampton as one of the last people seen with the couple. Smith initially told investigators the pair were alive and well when he left, but cellphone records placed him near the RV around the estimated time of the killings and a witness later said Smith confessed. In July 2013 a jury convicted Smith on two counts of murder and two related firearms charges; a Newport News Circuit Court Judge sentenced him to 46 years in prison.