Byrne pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, first-degree burglary and two counts of first-degree kidnapping. His bail has been set by Superior Court Judge Garold Johnson at $2 million, the News Tribune reported. On July 18, Tacoma officers arrived to a downtown building where Smith, a security guard, was found bleeding and not breathing by a coworker arriving for their shift. Smith had recently started working at the building in the 900 block of A Street and was found at around 6:10 a.m.

Detectives said it was clear Smith have been savagely beaten, and she was announced dead at the scene. It was only her 5th shift working at the building.

A 911 call made by a man known by Byrne was made from outside the building that same morning. On the call, Byrne says he’d been stabbed and sexually assaulted, but when taken to a hospital no stab wounds were found on him and he did not allow hospital staff to conduct a sexual assault examination. Byrne did have a head injury and staff at the hospital believed he was drunk.

Police officials learned that Byrne had been drinking the night before Smith was discovered and gotten into a bar fight with someone before fleeing to the building where Smith was at.

The attack captured on video left Smith “unrecognizable” according to prosecutors. Video shows Byrne enter the building and encounter Smith. Smith grabbed Byrne’s shirt to attempt to keep him from barging past her. Byrne then started to beat Smith between eight and 10 minutes.

“During that time the defendant repeatedly punched the victim with his fists, and he grabbed her by her braid and ‘dragged her around like a rag doll,’” prosecutors wrote in charging documentation. Byrne prevented Smith from escaping multiple times, stabbed her in the face with her keys and choked her until she went limp.

“During the defendant’s lengthy attack on the victim, she repeatedly tried to fight back, and she tried to get away, but the defendant grabbed her each time and prevented her from fleeing,” records say. “He repeatedly overpowered her, assaulted her, and threw her around by her hair braid.”