Lucas Lynn Smith, 24, of Yankton, South Dakota, was shot and later died on April 6, 2019, after an altercation that began inside Mojo’s bar shortly after midnight and continued outside. Surveillance video described in court records shows a brief fight inside the bar; staff ejected the parties and warned them to leave. Later, Smith and a friend, Jamie White, encountered Jameson Mitchell in a nearby alley. Court accounts say Mitchell retrieved a .38-caliber revolver from his apartment and returned to the alley.

Body shop cameras captured Mitchell advancing into the alley with the gun as Smith suddenly ran toward him at full speed. Investigators reported Smith yelled that he wanted to die and, as he closed the distance, Mitchell fired three shots. Smith was taken to a hospital and died that morning from a single gunshot wound to the chest. Mitchell was arrested that night, initially indicted for first-degree murder, and ultimately pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter under a resisting-a-crime theory. After sentencing and appeal activity, the case was remanded and later resulted in a 60-year sentence with time credited.

Are there readers who were in downtown Yankton that night or who remember seeing activity near Mojo’s or the alley who could help fill in unanswered moments from that sequence?