Charles Robert Smith biography: 10 things about US Army veteran from Annapolis, Maryland

Charles Robert Smith is an American man from Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. He is single.

Smith previously lived on Village Run in Harlem, Columbia County, Georgia, USA. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. In 1998, he graduated from South River High School in Edgewater, Anne Arundel County.
2. In February 2008, he started serving in the U.S. Army as an imagery analyst.
3. At around 10:20 p.m. on October 8, 2012, off-duty Richmond County Sheriff’s Office deputy Kevin Harrell, then 29, and Harrell’s wife were walking with their dogs near his home on Village Run. He got upset when one of the dogs started barking at him. Accused of stabbing Harrell, he was arrested, booked into the Columbia County Detention Center in Appling, Columbia County on a $25,100 bond and charged with felony aggravated assault. At the time, he was an active U.S. Army member stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Augusta–Richmond County, Georgia.
4. In June 2013, he left the U.S. Army. He held the rank of specialist at the end of service. He had no deployments at all.
5. On June 15, 2014, a jury at the Columbia County Justice Center in Evans, Columbia County took only 37 minutes to find him not guilty of felony aggravated assault in connection with the stabbing of Harrell on October 8, 2012.
6. He lives with his mother Shirley Smith in Annapolis. In 2016, she filed a petition for a peace order against their neighbor Mario Alfredo Mireles, then 20, and accused Mireles of making threats and hitting her car with a large wet towel or blanket. On the same day, Mireles filed a petition for a peace order against her, claiming that she has had problems with him since 2007.
7. Since 2018, the Annapolis Police Department was called to Mireles’s house for several noise-related complaints, most of which were phoned in anonymously. One complaint in 2020 is attributed to him.
8. At around 8:00 p.m. on June 11, 2023, he returned home in Annapolis when Mireles was hosting a large party with many cars parked along the street. His mother called the police and complained that one of the cars was blocking their driveway. Mireles went to their home to argue about the parking complaint, which lead to a confrontation. He was arrested after fatally shooting Mireles, Mireles’s father Nicholas “Nick” Mereles, 55, of Odenton, Anne Arundel County and their family friend Christian Marlon Segovia, 25, of Severn, Anne Arundel County and wounding three others.
9. On June 13, 2023, District Judge Robert C. Wilcox ordered him to continue to be held in jail without bail until his preliminary hearing. He was arrested and charged with use of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime, three counts of second-degree murder, three counts of attempted second-degree murder and three counts of first-degree assault. His attorney Mark Howes claimed that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from his service in the U.S. Army.
10. He was 43 years old when a grand jury in Anne Arundel County on July 21, 2023 returned hate crime and first-degree murder charges against him.