Gavin Smith’s Former Girlfriend, Rebecca Walker, Took the Stand on Day Two of Smith’s Trial

Day two of testimony in the trial of a teenager accused of murdering four members of his family in Elkview continued on Tuesday. Eyewitness News reporter Leslie Rubin has been covering the trial of Gavin Smith and noted that Rebecca Walker was called as the state’s fourth witness. She was Smith’s girlfriend at the time of the shootings and is currently serving 10 years in prison after she entered into a plea deal. In exchange for the plea and her cooperation in Smith’s prosecution, murder charges were dropped against her but lesser charges applied. On the day the shootings took place in 2020, Walker testified that she was on a video chat call with Smith, who was at his house. She said that Smith showed her a gun and a knife over the video chat. The screen went black for a time and he returned, panicked and nervous, according to Walker. The trial is expected to last through the week.