Troy J. Smith was a 37-year-old Black man who was shot and killed on Milwaukee’s west side in the early morning of June 16, 2017. Police found him lying in the middle of North 27th Street at West McKinley Boulevard; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Multiple shots had been fired, and investigators placed numerous evidence markers and recovered multiple spent shell casings in the roadway as they processed the scene.

Officers canvassed nearby homes for witnesses, but police initially did not announce a motive or identify a suspect; by about 9:30 a.m. no one was in custody. Later cold-case listings continue to treat Smith’s death as a Milwaukee Police Department murder investigation, and those records do not name any suspect or link an arrest, charge, prosecution or conviction to the June 16, 2017 killing. If anyone saw or heard anything that night or has information about Troy Smith’s death, please share what is known.