Robbery Accomplice Saw Signs of Slayings ( a soldier who killed)

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Robbery Accomplice Saw Signs of Slayings
Hearing Reveals Maryland Rampage Details
By David Snyder
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 8, 2004; Page B02


Evan D. Smyth was carrying a shotgun around in a pillowcase, bragging that he was "a soldier" who had already killed and would kill again, when he asked James A. Brandt to help him rob a drug dealer in Montgomery County last year, according to court testimony yesterday.

When Brandt and Smyth arrived at Smyth's basement bedroom in Silver Spring that night, Brandt saw blood and tissue covering the walls and floor. Before killing Offiah that day, Smyth had slain two others, and he would kill a fourth person later that week, before finally being arrested.

Smyth pleaded guilty April 29 to four charges of first-degree murder in the slayings of Offiah; Shauntise Monique Gill, 17; Kay Carey, 42, his girlfriend; and Phillip Walker, 20. The bodies all were found in Montgomery in a 36-hour period while Hurricane Isabel pummeled the region.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35563-2004Jul7.html

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1. so many people

fall into this category:

Brandt and Smyth stole crack cocaine from Offiah and smoked it together, authorities said. Brandt was described in court by a psychologist yesterday as having "poor judgment and rigid thinking" and as a cocaine addict who was easy to persuade.

Brandt was convicted of distributing cocaine in 1996 and possession of cocaine in 1998. Family members and friends had urged him repeatedly to stay clean, Sandler said.

"Had Jimmy Brandt been a stronger person . . . had he been a smarter person, he may have listened," Sandler said.

all those that refuse to educate themselves regarding the murderous regime that occupyies 1600 Penn Ave.

And accomplices they become. :(