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Arrest made in July New Cassel killing

Originally published: November 29, 2012 9:43 PM
Updated: November 29, 2012 9:48 PM
By BILL MASON  bill.mason@newsday.com

Melvin D. Smith III, 21, of North Amityville,

Photo credit: NCPD | Melvin D. Smith III, 21, of North Amityville, was arrested Thursday in connection with a New Cassel shooting July 7, 2012, in which one man was killed and three others were wounded, police said.

A North Amityville man was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in a New Cassel shooting this summer in which one man was killed and three others were wounded, police said.

Melvin D. Smith III, 21, of 106 Schleigel Ct., was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Joe Smithson, 20, who died Nov. 4 at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.

Smithson was among a...

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