Frost was shot to death June 19, 2013, near the entrance of his apartment on Valerie Arms Drive as he walked up to the building with his girlfriend and her 8-month-old child. The woman and child escaped unharmed, but Frost was shot three times and died at the scene.
Prosecutors described the killing as gruesome and premeditated.
“He was looking for Rodney. He was waiting for Rodney, and once he found him he shot him over and over to make sure he was dead,” said Erin Leigh Claypoole, Montgomery County assistant prosecutor.
Moxley was identified by at least one witness who said she saw him hanging around the complex about two hours before the shooting, but that witness later recanted. Descriptions given by 911 callers, including Frost’s girlfriend, also differed from Moxley’s description in terms of height, facial hair and tattoos, Oladi said. Police never located the murder weapon.
On July 3, 2013, Moxley was apprehended by members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force in Cincinnati after they found him at a Greyhound bus terminal with a bus ticket to Atlanta, Ga. An admitted marijuana dealer, Oladi said Moxley was trying to get to his mother’s house in Georgia because he believed police were onto his drug scheme.
Frost, Oladi said, was a known heroin dealer who was rumored to have snitched on others to protect himself. That, Oladi said, is what got him killed rather than her client.
“(He did) the one thing every drug dealer knows you don’t do and Rodney ended up paying the ultimate price,” she said.
Testimony continues Monday in Judge Steven K. Dankof’s courtroom in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.
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