The two men allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of an Applebee’s restaurant manager in Fayetteville last month will remain in jail until their trial.

“We feel like we have to be here,” Smith’s cousin Jessalyn Dorsey told Channel 2. “The family wants to send a statement to them that we miss our loved one and we’re gonna be here to make sure that justice is done.”

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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