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Sirens & Gavels

Murder suspect known as ‘Psycho Shane’

Acquaintances of a man arrested for the shooting death of another suspected methamphetamine user told detectives he was dangerously unstable and often accused people at gunpoint of things they did not do.

A witness in the investigation of Warren Scott Flinn’s homicide said suspect Shane Caleb Smith, 38, is known as “Psycho Shane” and sometimes speaks of imaginary people and vivid hallucinations, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

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Smith is pictued in 2004. He now has long, scraggly hair that extends past his shoulders.



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