Scott Hexter was a suspect in a series of murders committed by serial killer Arthur Pruitt. He was detained and arraigned on circumstantial evidence when he was afraid to give up his alibi.
Background[]
Scott lived with his mother outside of the city and had a father named Sam who died fifteen years ago. Sam was a military veteran and taught Scott how to shoot. However, Sam was also conservative and domineering, which left Scott socially awkward and afraid of doing or being anything Sam thought was beneath a person. Sam was also reportedly both patriotic and paranoid over the government, which also imprinted on Scott's mind.
Scott grew up to be a florist and lived with his mother in his adulthood. Because of Scott's paranoia taken from his father, he was know for occasional tirades against the system and refused to pay mounting outstanding parking tickets, despite him being so harmless he wouldn't hurt a fly. His mother would take primary responsibility for ticket payments, for Scott and herself. He was also a closeted gay man, with a boyfriend named Julian living in Riverdale.
Mayhem[]
On March 9, 1994, Scott skidded on black ice and accidentally hit a parked car. Even though his father was dead, knowing his accident would be traced to Julian's apartment, and still fearing judgment like that of his father, he fled the scene on impulse. His car was ticketed in Manhattan not far from a park site where Ken Scofield was shot dead by Arthur Pruitt while Ken had sex with Jill Templeton in his car. It was the second identified murder Pruitt committed, the other in Queens where Scott was also ticketed around the same time. Because his description of a white man with black-rimmed glasses was slightly similar to Pruitt's, he was brought in for murder once he was arrested for his traffic violations.
Scott was heightened and apprehensive, denied his involvement in the murders, and refused to say where he was. He was even harder to break under threats and even started crying at times. His lawyer effectively defended him on circumstantial evidence, even down to a deli owner only seeing Scott at a deli, not a crime scene. Scott was eventually released when his mother paid for all his and her tickets. He was arrested again at his place of work and arraigned, but he still wouldn't budge in revealing his alibi. Eventually, his mother gave up Julian, and Julian backed Scott's account of the car accident. A homeless woman who saw Pruitt shoot Ken also said a different man was guilty. However, before Scott could be released from prison, he was shanked during dinner and died.