On April 14, 2016, a 26-year-old female named Samantha Shea McCarty was killed in Pike County, Mississippi. A mother of three daughters, her life was cut short by an act of gun violence.
The circumstances of her death led to the arrest of her estranged husband, George William Smith. Smith, who was 30 years old at the time of the sentencing, was accused of shooting McCarty in front of her children. Initially indicted for first-degree murder, Smith later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge
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