A Fort Bragg staff sergeant accused of shooting his fiancée in 2023 and then using her phone to lure another noncommissioned officer to his death will be tried for his life, according to a filing by the Hoke County District Attorney’s Office.Assistant District Attorney Allan Adams filed a notice Oct. 20 stating he intends to seek the death penalty against Brandon Amos-Dixon, 28, in the killing of Staff Sgt. Jimmy Lee Smith III, 24, a native of High Point. Both men were culinary specialists in different active-duty Army units at Fort Bragg.
Deadly meet up
Smith’s fatal shooting Jan. 18, 2023, happened some 40 minutes after Amos-Dixon’s fiancée, Chelsea Ling Chung, asked a passerby for help after arriving in a parking lot outside a Food Lion in Harnett County just before 10 p.m.
“Call 911, I’ve been shot,” the record said she asked of a man whose car she nearly hit. The man did call 911 and helped the young mother and child into a nearby restaurant.
According to the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office and search warrants in the case, Ling Chung, who was also an active-duty sergeant, told investigators Amos-Dixon had choked her during an argument, and as she and her daughter were trying to leave his house 5 miles east of the Food Lion, he allegedly fired multiple rounds into her vehicle…