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Corporal Betty Dunn Smothers, aged 36, was a dedicated officer with the Baton Rouge City Police Department. On January 7, 1993, while moonlighting as a security guard, she was fatally shot in an ambush attack. Smothers was in uniform and driving a marked patrol car when she and a grocery store manager went to a bank to make a night deposit. As they sat in the patrol car, three suspects approached and opened fire, fatally wounding Smothers and injuring the manager.
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Betty Dunn Smothers
Female
Black / African American
Baton-rouge
LA
1993-01-07
36
Betty
Dunn Smothers
11/10/2025
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I've been thinking a lot about how both the community and Corporal Betty Dunn Smothers' family have ... ...Read More
03/19/2023
03/19/2023
