CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) – A Charlotte County couple has a trial date set and faces the death penalty for the alleged murder of a man in September 2022.
According to court documents, Andrew Smith and Melissa Dymond-Demetrowitz were indicted in Charlotte County on June 8, 2023, for first-degree murder with a firearm, Conspiracy to commit first-degree murder with a firearm, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
They are accused of conspiring to and then murdering Shawn Patrick Armstrong sometime between September 8 and September 13, 2022. It is believed the pair lured Armstrong to a wooded area in southern Charlotte County, where they shot him to death and then took his body to a separate wooded area in Lee County and concealed it under palm fronds…