THE DARK SIDE OF FLORIDA
Walter Bailey
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Full Name: Walter Bailey
Date of birth: July 6, 1979
Conviction: 1st-degree murder
County: Miami-Dade
City: Miami
Current Location: Franklin Correctional Institution
Date of crime: September 4, 2006
Tentative discharge date: Life
Victim(s): Royston Smith & Andre Potts
Date of birth: July 6, 1979
Conviction: 1st-degree murder
County: Miami-Dade
City: Miami
Current Location: Franklin Correctional Institution
Date of crime: September 4, 2006
Tentative discharge date: Life
Victim(s): Royston Smith & Andre Potts
On September 4, 2006, Geneva Nottage was shot and seriously injured in the Miami apartment of Royston Smith, her boyfriend. During that incident, Royston and his roommate, Andre Potts, were shot and killed by two men who entered the apartment. The evidence at trial established that Royston was a drug dealer and that the two men who entered the apartment were looking for drugs and money. Geneva was the only surviving victim and eyewitness.
Three days after the shooting, while Geneva was in the hospital for treatment, she told hospital personnel that she did not know the person who shot her. Later, however, police investigators showed her photographic line-ups, six photos per array. Geneva identified a photo of Walter Bailey as the first person to enter the apartment on the day of the shootings, and as a person who had visited Royston’s apartment on five or more occasions before that to buy marijuana. On Walter’s photo, Geneva wrote “The one that took my heart,” and put her initials under it.
At trial, Geneva identified Walter as the shooter. She testified that she had looked into his face before she was ordered to lay face down on the apartment floor. She also testified that Walter had been to the apartment on different occasions before the shootings when he visited Royston for drugs. She said she had also seen Walter at a gas station at some point before the shootings. She testified that she also saw Walter when he came back to the door of the apartment and fired the last three shots. Geneva said that Robert, unequivocally, was the man who shot her.
Three days after the shooting, while Geneva was in the hospital for treatment, she told hospital personnel that she did not know the person who shot her. Later, however, police investigators showed her photographic line-ups, six photos per array. Geneva identified a photo of Walter Bailey as the first person to enter the apartment on the day of the shootings, and as a person who had visited Royston’s apartment on five or more occasions before that to buy marijuana. On Walter’s photo, Geneva wrote “The one that took my heart,” and put her initials under it.
At trial, Geneva identified Walter as the shooter. She testified that she had looked into his face before she was ordered to lay face down on the apartment floor. She also testified that Walter had been to the apartment on different occasions before the shootings when he visited Royston for drugs. She said she had also seen Walter at a gas station at some point before the shootings. She testified that she also saw Walter when he came back to the door of the apartment and fired the last three shots. Geneva said that Robert, unequivocally, was the man who shot her.
Source: FindLaw