SPOKANE — A man arrested in the kidnapping of a Cheney marijuana store employee has given a jailhouse confession to a Spokane television station.
Donovan Culps told KHQ-TV Monday that he shot Cameron Smith several times after Smith declined to sell him pot products because he didn’t have identification.
Culps, 36, told the station he was having a bad day and that Smith “got the ugly side of it.”
Culps is in a Spokane jail on accusations of kidnapping and robbery. He has not been charged in Smith’s death. Culps’ niece, Violetta Culps, 18, remains at large.
Authorities say the 46-year-old Smith was abducted from the parking lot of Lucid Marijuana on Sept. 10 as he was eating lunch in his car.
