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Joshua David Smith

Case from Boston, MA dated Jul 05, 2021

Victim Details

Joshua David Smith

Male

Black / African American

Boston

MA

2021-07-05

29

Joshua

David Smith

07/26/2026

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In the early morning hours of July 5, 2021, a day meant for celebration, the life of 29-year-old Joshua David Smith, a Black male from Milton, Massachusetts, was violently cut short in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Smith, a union carpenter with an outgoing personality and a loving spirit, was found by police near the intersection of Seaver Street and Humboldt Avenue suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. In a brutal sequence of events, he had also been struck by a car. Emergency medical s ...
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  • Police identify man shot, fatally struck by car in Roxbury
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