The address is at the corner of Kavanaugh Boulevard about two blocks west of University Avenue.

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The homicide at 15 Lombardy Lane appears to involve family members, police said. The call came in at 12:07 p.m.

UPDATE: Police aren’t ready to release an identity, pending notification of all relatives. But a police spokesman said they have “detained a person of interest.”  Asked whether the cause of death was a knifing, Eric Barnes said, “The call came in as a battery (possibly in progress) and we will await for further medical evaluation before confirming this.” Police said the female victim was dead when they arrived.

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UPDATE II: Police say Logan Smith, 34, has  been charged with first-degree murder in the case, though they still haven’t identified the victim. UPDATE: now they have as I reported earlier.

Logan Smith is the stepson of Cathy Smith, 71, widow of Circuit Judge Vann Smith, and 15 Lombardy is her home. Friends were told by police that she was the victim. One said she was beaten after an argument with her son in the yard.

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Judge Smith, who died in January, asked to have Logan Smith committed for mental treatment Aug. 31, 2021, saying he was bipolar, not taking his medication and acting aggressively and threatening. His father said his son had cut him with a blade that morning and had also threatened to kill a cousin. He voluntarily accepted mental treatment Sept. 10. He’d been treated before, his father said last August.

Cathy Smith had been a paralegal for the Rose Law Firm for many years and also had been a circuit court case coordinator. She and Vann Smith married in 2002.

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