GARDINER, Maine — Leroy Smith III, the Gardiner man charged Tuesday with murdering his father at their Cannard Street apartment, is scheduled to make his initial appearance Thursday morning at Kennebec County Superior Court in Augusta.
Brenda Kielty, spokeswoman for the Maine Attorney General’s Office, said Smith is due to appear at 8:30 a.m.
Smith, 24, was charged Tuesday with the murder of his father, 56-year-old Leroy Smith II, whose remains were found Monday morning in a wooded area off Lincoln Street in Richmond.
The younger Smith was arrested early Monday morning in Westbrook and held at Cumberland County Jail on a fugitive-from-justice warrant from Westborough, Massachusetts. Westborough police said he violated a protection-from-harassment order obtained by his landlord.
At the time of his arrest in Westbrook, Smith provided police with information that led to the discovery of his father’s remains.
On Tuesday, Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said the state medical examiner’s office determined following an autopsy that Leroy Smith II died “from multiple sharp force injuries.” Investigators believe his son killed him in their Cannard Street apartment and took the remains to Richmond.