Travis Smith

Deadly force

Deputy Kimber Gist was investigating a suspicious other with two people inside behind the Food Lion in Goose Creek. She had detained Smith, and as she was getting information from him, a fight broke out. That struggle turned into a gunfight, police said. Smith was later found in a North Charleston home on Bexley Street. He was alive when found, but eventually died of either Gist's shots or a self-inflicted gunshot.