Suspect Indicted in 2012 Moore Loft Stabbing

TYLER — A Smith County grand jury has indicted 33-year-old Roy Edward Smith, accused of stabbing Victoria Massey multiple times as she left her Moore Grocery Loft apartment on North Broadway in June 2012. In a case that drew wide attention and spurred safety concerns, the victim was left for dead but survived. Police say they got a key break last June through a DNA sample from a sock that contained a rock Smith allegedly used to strike Massey in the head before the stabbing.

Investigators learned Smith was already locked up in the Allred Unit in Wichita County. Smith is now charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury, a Second degree Felony. Police Chief Gary Swindle said, “Victoria Massey and the downtown residents and merchants can now feel safer knowing that this suspect has been charged and will remain off our streets.”