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Alexander Smith

Case from Boston, MA dated Sep 29, 2002

Victim Details

Alexander Smith

Male

Boston

MA

2002-09-29

26

Alexander

Smith

07/19/2026

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Alexander Smith, 26, male, was shot and killed in Boston on September 29, 2002. City records show his death at age twenty-six on that date, confirming the loss felt in his community and by his young family. Community memorials later recorded that he was “lost to gun violence,” a stark epitaph that compresses a life into a single violent moment.

According to contemporaneous reporting from the Associated Press, Smith was a father of two who became embroiled in a heated argument inside ...
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  • Case against man shot by FBI is dropped - The Boston Globe
  • Hallam Hal Smith Obituary 2002 - Cremation Society of New ...
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