Two indicted in 2019 Augusta homicide

Lorenzo LIndsey, Jr. Photo courtesy the Jail Report

Date: March 18, 2022

Two Augusta men have been indicted on charges of murder and illegal gang activity in a 2019 homicide.
The Richmond County grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday, March 15 naming Lorenzo Dexter Lindsey, 25, and Evan V. Smith, 24. Both have been held in jail since June 2020 and April 2021, respectively.

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The indictment accuses them of murder in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Michael Edward Holt on 10th Street on Oct. 21, 2019. Holt was shot in the abdomen and legs and later died at a hospital. The indictment accuses Lindsey and Smith of killing Holt for the benefit of the street gang Sex, Money and Murder.

Smith is named in an unrelated second indictment along with Tavares R. Kirk, 22, that accuses the pair of armed robbery and hijacking a motor vehicle on Nov. 8, 2019.

Sandy Hodson is a staff reporter covering courts for The Augusta Press. Reach her at sandy@theaugustapress.com. 

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Award-winning journalist Sandy Hodson The Augusta Press courts reporter. She is a native of Indiana, but she has been an Augusta resident since 1995 when she joined the staff of the Augusta Chronicle where she covered courts and public affairs. Hodson is a graduate of Ball State University, and she holds a certificate in investigative reporting from the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization. Before joining the Chronicle, Hodson spent six years at the Jackson, Tenn. Sun. Hodson received the prestigious Georgia Press Association Freedom of Information Award in 2015, and she has won press association awards for investigative reporting, non-deadline reporting, hard news reporting, public service and specialty reporting. In 2000, Hodson won the Georgia Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and in 2001, she received Honorable Mention for the same award and is a fellow of the National Press Foundation and a graduate of the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting boot camp.

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