Jonathan Smith

In the summer of 2014, a wave of shock and sorrow swept through a Buffalo, New York community with the death of 20-year-old Jonathan Denzel Smith. On July 13th, his life was tragically cut short by an act of violence that left family and friends searching for answers and a city grappling with another senseless loss. The young man was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds, a brutal end to a life that had just begun to unfold.

The Buffalo Police Department immediately launched a thorough ...