Benjamin Keith Smith, 51, of Durham, North Carolina, was shot the morning of February 20, 2020 and died at a local hospital on February 21, 2020. Officers were flagged down on Holloway Street near Raynor Street and found Smith in a parking lot by that intersection; he was taken to the hospital and later succumbed to his injuries.

Witnesses said Smith had argued with another individual before the shooting. Police apprehended 22-year-old Taki D. Farley after a brief chase; Farley, a convicted felon, was found with a handgun. Farley was charged with murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in Smith’s death, and with larceny of a motor vehicle and possession of a stolen motor vehicle for an unrelated car theft earlier that morning on Chautauqua Street. Farley was being held at the Durham County Jail without bond.

The Durham Police Department asked anyone with information about the incident to come forward. If anyone knew Benjamin Keith Smith or saw events near Holloway and Raynor streets that morning, please share what was seen or heard.