(WBIR) The cellmate of infamous Gatlinburg killer Edward "Tattoo Eddie" Harris has been indicted in Harris' March prison killing.
A Morgan County grand jury on Monday indicted Gregory Smith, 34, for first-degree murder in the March 10, 2015, killing at the Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg.
According to the office of Ninth Judicial District Attorney General Russell Johnson, Tennessee Department of Correction cameras recorded the fatal attack. Harris, 58, was stabbed in a housing unit lobby area where the cell of Harris and Smith was located.
"Smith is seen using what TDOC officials describe as a prison-made shank to stab Harris multiple times," according to a news release from Johnson's office.
Harris bled to death.
Smith's arraignment will be scheduled. He remains at the Morgan County state prison, where he is serving a life sentence. He was convicted in 2004 in a Dickson County homicide.
In September 1986, Harris and Joseph DeModica murdered night clerk Melissa Suttles Hill, 21, and night security guard Troy Dale Valentine, 36, in a motel room at the Rocky Top Village Inn.
After handcuffing Hill, Harris and DeModica stabbed the 21-year-old woman 18 times before shooting her in the head.
Harris and DeModica knocked Valentine unconscious before stabbing him repeatedly in the chest, back, jaw, and neck, and then shooting him in the head.
The two men stole $499 and Hill's purse.
Three days after the murders, an envelope marked "Please give to a policeman" was found in a phone booth near a police station in Maggie Valley, N.C. Inside the envelope was a letter and a small knife that belonged to Hill. The letter, written by Harris, contained information only the killers would have known.
On Dec. 16, 1987, officials arrested Harris in Atlanta.
Harris was found guilty by a Sevier County jury in the killings and sentenced to death.
Mental health experts in 2002 determined that Harris had a mental disability and could not be executed.
Authorities then removed him from death row. At the time of his death, Harris was serving three, consecutive life sentences.
