Office of the State Attorney

State of Florida v. Frederick Smith                        

                                                                                                           

DOB: 08/22/1980      

2014-300963 CFDB - 1.) Second Degree Murder

VCSO Case # 130000078

Date of Offense: 01/01/2013

 

Frederick Smith Convicted of Second-Degree Murder, Co-Defendant Found Not Guilty

DAYTONA BEACH – A Volusia County Jury deliberated just 39 minutes following a two-week jury trial before returning a verdict of guilty for Frederick Dewayne Smith and a verdict of not guilty for co-defendant Anwar Sadat Green. Smith, 35, of Orange City, faces a life sentence on the second-degree murder conviction with a firearm. That sentencing date has not yet been set.

 

            Witnesses at trial testified that Frederick Smith, following an altercation with Antwan Harris, fired several shots into Harris’s car, killing him. Please see attached 707 for further details.  

 

            Assistant State Attorney Heatha Trigones, of the State Attorney’s Homicide Unit, prosecuted the case with Assistant State Attorney Lacee Monk. Seventh Circuit Judge Terence R. Perkins presided over the case and will pronounce sentence at a hearing date to be set.

 

Please find attached a redacted 707 and Information.

 

For more information contact:

 

Spencer S. Hathaway

Public Information Officer / Assistant State Attorney

Office of R.J. Larizza

State Attorney, Seventh Judicial Circuit