“Marzell wasn’t the killing type,” he said. A few months later, Marzell amended his request, saying, “That dude who was looking for a gun? He asked me how much he would have to pay to kill somebody.” A murder Smothers could handle. Smothers didn’t sell guns, and he told him so. In the summer of 2007, he told me, his friend Marzell Black asked him for a gun for his mother’s boyfriend. Vincent Smothers thought that it would be a job like any other.
