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Derrick Deon Smith

Case from Baltimore, MD dated Apr 18, 2012

Victim Details

Derrick Deon Smith

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Baltimore

MD

2012-04-18

2012-04-18

33

Derrick

Deon Smith

07/14/2026


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Derrick Deon Smith, 33, was a Black man who was killed in Baltimore, Maryland, after gunfire erupted at a bar along the 3200 block of Belair Road on the night of April 17, 2012, with his death recorded the following day, April 18.

That stretch of Belair Road was still awake and noisy when the shooting happened. Reports describe the killing as taking place inside a crowded bar, the kind of room where conversations overlap and people press shoulder to shoulder near the counter. In the midd ...
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  • Man fatally shot in bar packed with 80 patrons - Baltimore Sun
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