Defendant claims September killing on North 12 Street was self defense, not murder
Wallace Smith III admits he shot and killed George Derment Jr. early Sept. 23, but he claims the killing was self defense, not murder.
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Wallace Smith III admits he shot and killed George Derment Jr. early Sept. 23, but he claims the killing was self defense, not murder.
Five people died from homicides in Lafayette during 2023. West Lafayette police and the Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office had no homicides.
Prosecutors charged Wallace Smith III with murder, pointing a firearm and a sentence-enhancing charge of unlawful use a firearm.
George Derment Jr. died from multiple gunshot wounds, and his death officially is a homicide, according to preliminary autopsy results.
A recently filed court document describes the scene of an early Saturday homicide.