Supporters of a Garner man accused of killing a WakeMed police officer called Monday for the hospital’s security-camera footage to be released.
Benji Martin Jr., 29, was arrested and charged with murder Friday after being released from the hospital. He’d spent over a week there after also being shot in the Nov. 8 struggle with Officer Roger Smith, 59, in the WakeMed Garner Healthplex’s emergency department.
Smith, a 14-year veteran of the WakeMed Campus Police Department, was fatally wounded and was laid to rest last week in Clayton. He had worked as a police officer since 1996, spending 16 years with the Knightdale Police Department in addition to his two stints with the WakeMed department…