An Arizona man who shot a couple dead in their home after a sports car purchase went south will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Alexander Lee Smith, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary, according to a press release from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office posted on Friday. Smith was convicted for the November 2023 shooting deaths of Walter Mitchell, 52, and Susie Ephrem, 42, from whom Smith had attempted to purchase a sports car before the deal was called off.
The couple’s 8-year-old grandson had been in the home at the time of the fatal shooting, but he was unharmed…