Smith gets 50 years for killing activist?s son

Sean Nelson Smith received a 50-year prison sentence Thursday for killing the son of a popular Edgewood community activist.

Harford Circuit Court Judge Stephen M. Waldron imposed the maximum sentence for the August 2007 slaying after hearing tearful testimony from relatives of the 25-year-old victim, Samuel Horne, son of Edgewood community activist Mildred Samy.

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