GUILTY NJ - Dayshawn Smith, 20, stabbed to death, Paterson, 27 March 2005

[Jeana (DP)]

Officer finds son mortally wounded at fight scene


PATERSON, New Jersey (AP) -- A police officer responding to a report of a fight found that the mortally wounded victim was his son.

Officer Wayne Smith was working a night shift early Easter morning when he was called to the scene and pushed his way through the blood-spattered crowd. Someone yelled, "Wayne, that's your son, Dayshawn. He just got stabbed."

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"Dayshawn," he recalled saying. "It's Dad! I'm right here! Wake up! Come on! Let's do this!"

Dayshawn Smith died at 6:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/nj.officer.ap/index.html

 

[OkieGranny]

From June 2007:

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/06/man_gets_52_years_for_patrson.html

Superior Court Judge Randolph Subryan sentenced 26-year-old Rashawn Capers to 40 years without parole for the murder of 20-year-old Dayshawn Smith and 12 years for the attempted murder of Smith's friend, 17-year-old Raheem Pickens. The sentences are to be served consecutively...

Capers was convicted in February of murder, attempted murder and three weapons offenses for his role in a March 27, 2005, street fight outside a Paterson after-hours club.