Irony was not on Tina Gregg's mind when she learned she would on Valentine's Day once again demand justice for the execution of her daughter at the hands of a spurned lover.
"She was stalwart," attorney T. Scott Jones said of Gregg's reaction to the unintentional scheduling of a final showdown in court with Shawn Smoot on Tuesday. "She did not want to delay."
Smoot, a former Knoxville insurance agent, was convicted last year in the October 2011 slaying of former co-worker, Brooke Nicole Morris, 23, with whom he had become obsessed after she walked away from their affair. Testimony showed Morris, Gregg's daughter and a mother of a young son herself, was shot three times – once in the neck, once in the chest and once to the back of the head – on a roadside in Roane County, south of Oliver Springs.
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