Russell Lydell Smith

How they died

Deadly force

Officers serving a warrant on Russell Smith backed him into a dead-end street near his home, and fired 21 times into his car, hitting him eight times. Smith was reportedly driving in the general direction of officers when they opened fire. Neighbors of Smith, who was unarmed at the time of the shooting, held a community meeting to voice their concerns over the shooting. An inquest jury cleared three officers involved in the shooting of any wrongdoing in March of 2014.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Russell Lydell Smith, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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