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the death of Holt Smith does not go unnoticed

Mark Holberg looks at the life of Holt Smith, who was shot on August 30 on the 400 block of North 31st Street while waiting for a bus to take him to work.

Form the article:

Checking fingerprints and identity databases, he learned that the victim, 60-year-old Holt Smith, was a Vietnam veteran.

Caudery also saw Smith had been arrested in Alabama in 1962 for parading without a permit.

“Is that what I think it is?” he recalled asking Holt Smith’s mother when he reached her in Birmingham, Ala.

Sure enough, Holt Smith — then a teenager — was arrested with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during a civil-rights march in Birmingham. He also marched with King in Selma and Washington, his family said.

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Richmond police and prosecutors say 17-year-old Jamar Scott and 15-year-old Tyquane Lynch robbed Holt Smith at gunpoint. Scott allegedly shot Smith multiple times and then fled in a car that, police say, had been stolen in the Fan District that morning.

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Lynch had been released from a state juvenile-detention facility five days before the slaying. Scott was on parole at the time and wanted by police.