South Africa man convicted in deaths of 2 Alaska Native women faces revocation of U.S. citizenship

By MARK THIESSEN
Associated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal prosecutors want to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a South Africa man convicted of killing two Alaska Native women for allegedly lying on his naturalization application for saying he had neither killed nor hurt anyone. Brian Steven Smith was convicted earlier this year in the deaths of the two women, narrating as he recorded one woman dying. That video was stored on a phone that was stolen from his pickup. The images were transferred to a memory card and later turned over to police by the person who took the phone. A federal grand jury has indicted Smith on falsely obtaining U.S. citizenship for lying on his application that he had never killed, hurt or sexually assaulted anyone.