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Gregory C. Smith California

Gregory C. Smith is an inmate on death row in the state of California..

Crime

Smith followed a Japanese exchange student,  Ai Toyoshima home from a movie on a bus, forced her to a schoolyard at gunpoint and then raped her, shooting her as he did.
On June 16, 1989, Ai Toyoshima, a Japanese student who had come to the United States to learn English, went to a movie with some friends, including her boyfriend, Mitsuhiro Fukumoto, another exchange student.   She and Fukumoto then went to a park in Los Gatos and, that evening, got on a bus to go home.   Defendant entered the bus at the same time.   Around 9:00 p.m., Fukumoto got off at his stop, leaving Toyoshima on the bus.   Toyoshima got off near an elementary school in San Jose. Defendant followed her.
Defendant accosted Toyoshima and forced her at gunpoint to go to the elementary school, where he raped her.   While raping her, he shot her in the chest with a Raven Arms .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol.
After shooting Toyoshima, defendant attempted to steal a car parked in front of a nearby liquor store.   The store owner, John Ajlouni, tried to stop him.   Defendant pointed a gun at Ajlouni, told him to go back into the store, then entered the car.   A San Jose police car drove onto the parking lot.   Ajlouni told the officers that defendant was trying to rob him and he had a gun.   Defendant got out of the car and ran.   One of the officers chased him, but he got away.

Address

Gregory C. Smith H46900
San Quentin State Prison Death Row
San Quentin, CA 94974



Links of Interest

Serial Rapist Faces Possible Execution for Exchange Student Murder
People v Smith

Videos of Interest


Notes

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