David Leroy Smith Jr., a 40-year-old Black male, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of August 12, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri. The incident occurred at the Sweet Timez nightclub located at 5166 Martin Luther King Drive in the city's Academy neighborhood, near Wellston. Smith, who was known to friends and family as '9 Lil Dave,' was a resident of the 7500 block of Balfour Drive in Hanley Hills prior to his untimely death.
The violence erupted just before 3:00 a.m. when a dispute,
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