Ralph Arnold Smith Allegedly Conspired To Kill Lee Abraham, Divorce Lawyer
JACKSON, Miss. — It wasn’t a secret that Dr. Ralph Arnold Smith Jr. was still angry at the attorney who represented his ex-wife during their divorce in the mid-1990s. Now authorities in the small Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood are investigating whether the well-known oncologist was so filled with rage that he hired men to kill the lawyer.
The 70-year-old doctor was charged with conspiring to kill Lee Abraham following a bizarre weekend incident in which two men suspected of planning to murder the lawyer showed up at his office, according to authorities and court documents. State agents who’d been tipped off to a possible murder-for-hire plot were waiting and gunfire broke out.
Investigators killed a masked man and shot another man at the lawyer’s office on Saturday, according to police reports in the case. An investigator from the Mississippi attorney general’s office was wounded in the exchange.
Abraham, who was present but was not hurt in the shooting, called it a “real tragedy,” but wouldn’t comment further because he’ll be a witness in the case.
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