Joel Dixon Smith

How they died

Deadly force

Smith, who had been served a restraining order based on domestic abuse, was turning in his guns to a deputy when he shot the deputy from behind, police said. Smith fled the scene and barricaded himself in a hotel room, which he left firing after police arrived, according to authorities.

Why we remember them

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

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