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Ernest Eugene Smith

Case from Nashville, TN dated Aug 26, 2009

Victim Details

Ernest Eugene Smith

March 28, 2022

Male

Black / African American

Nashville

TN

2009-08-26

2009-08-26

20

Ernest Eugene

Smith

06/23/2026


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In the early hours of August 26, 2009, a sense of normalcy was shattered for the family of Ernest Eugene Smith, a 20-year-old Black male from Nashville, Tennessee. Just after midnight, Smith was making the short walk home from a friend's house when his life was tragically cut short. He was fatally shot in a violent encounter that would leave his community searching for answers and his case lingering in the files of unsolved homicides.

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