Robert “Bob” Smith, a male deputy sheriff with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Birmingham, Alabama was killed by gunfire on February 6, 1922, during what began as routine law work and turned, in seconds, into a deadly standoff.
That day, Smith and another deputy went out to serve an arrest warrant on a man described as a murder suspect. The encounter was direct and close-range: when the deputies moved in to execute the warrant, the suspect opened fire. Smith was struck and
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