Brian Allen Smith was a White/Caucasian male, age 27. He died in El Dorado, Arkansas, on February 17, 2017. Loved ones remembered him as a Crossett native who had finished welding and pipe-fitting studies at SouthArk, a generous outdoorsman who fished and hunted, and a musician who expressed himself through guitar and keyboard. His family obituary marks the date and place of his death and sketches a portrait of someone quick to help and quick to smile.
Public memorial records list him among those “lost to gun violence” in El Dorado on that Friday, placing his death in the city’s tally of fatal shootings. The entry does not narrate the moment itself but affirms the manner and location of his passing, and it links to contemporaneous local reporting about the case.
According to that local reporting referenced by the memorial listing, an El Dorado man was charged in connection with Brian’s death within days of the incident. While the memorial index does not reproduce the full article text, it attributes the arrest information to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s online edition and catalogs the case as a criminal homicide with a named charge filed shortly after the shooting. No further public details in those open sources describe subsequent court outcomes.
