Smith was living in Mount Vernon, N.Y. at the time of his death. He moved there after Stamford police arrested him in June 2023 in what one investigator called a sophisticated phishing scam.

A 22-year-old former Stamford man accused of carrying out a scam targeting DoorDash drivers across the country was shot and killed earlier this week in New York. The man, David Smith, was found shot in New Rochelle Monday morning,