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Steven Alexander Smith (Smith County Sheriff

Steven Alexander Smith (Smith County Sheriff’s Office)

A 42-year-old man in Texas will spend the rest of his life behind bars after admitting to gunning down two dentists in a fit of rage two years ago. Smith Count District Court Judge Debby Gunter handed down a mandatory sentence of life in a state correctional facility without the possibility of parole to Steven Alexander Smith for the 2022 slayings of 75-year-old Dr. Jack E. Burroughs, Jr. and 59-year-old Dr. Blake G. Sinclair, authorities announced.

Smith, described as a “difficult patient” by the victims’ colleagues at Affordable Dentures & Implants, pleaded guilty to one count of capital murder of multiple persons on Monday, the same day his jury trial was scheduled to begin.

“The victims have waited a long time for this day. The defendant pled to capital murder and he will never be released from prison. We are thankful for the hard work of the Smith County Sheriff’s Office and prosecutors Noah Coltman and Zach Gilmore,” District Attorney Jacob Putman said in a statement following the sentencing hearing.

Prosecutors had already announced they would not seek the death penalty against Smith.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Smith on March 16, 2022, was at the clinic to have work done on his dentures when things took a grisly turn.

One of the nurses told investigators that Smith “was not happy with how they were doing the procedure” and repeatedly tried to tell the staff what to do. The nurse also noted that Smith had “always been a difficult patient.”

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