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Keith said he started to chase the suspect before he heard Jacquelyn's screams. I hit my window and Jacquelyn went to hand the money out and the guy leaned over and said, 'can I thank your wife?' I said you can thank my wife and, within that split second, this guy commits to stabbing my wife." "So at the stop sign, she waved her over to come on over to the car and out of nowhere some guy came over while walking with her. "My wife just felt moved to give her something," Keith told WMAR back in December. Jacquelyn and Keith were said to be on their way back from celebrating Valeria's birthday, when, according to Keith, Jacquelyn felt the need to give. That's when police were originally told a struggle began and the man stabbed Jacquelyn in the torso before he, and the panhandler, ran away. The family told police a man approached the car to say thank you when he reached for her wallet. Sitting in the passenger seat, the family alleged that Jacquelyn rolled her window down to give the woman some money. It was early Saturday morning on December 1, 2018, when Smith was reportedly stabbed to death after giving money to a panhandlerĪs part of what police are now calling a ruse, Jacquelyn's family initially said they were driving when she noticed a woman holding a cardboard sign saying, "Please help me feed my baby." "We want to make sure that the truth comes out and justice is done."
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"People took advantage of Baltimore," Harrison told reporters. Harrison says detectives will reveal what made them focus in on the pair of suspects during their trial.
#It was a ruse license#
Keith Smith's is a driver's license picture, Valeria Smith's photo is a mugshot from a prior arrest. "So we made the appropriate national notifications and the Texas State Police arrested him this morning."īaltimore police released photos of both suspects. Smith was leaving Maryland," Harrison said Sunday. "During the course of our investigation, we developed evidence that Mr. Harrison said police in Texas arrested the two Sunday morning near the U.S.-Mexico border after word got around they were trying to leave the country. Sunday afternoon, acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison announced the crime was staged and that Jacquelyn Smith's husband, Keith Smith, 52, and his 28-year-old daughter Valeria Shavon Smith had been charged with her murder.
#It was a ruse update#
BALTIMORE - After three months of investigating, Baltimore Police revealed a startling update on the murder of Jacquelyn Smith, which had family members asking the question, "why?"