Benny Brown Smith was an 84-year-old resident of Grenada, Mississippi, who died at his home on Monday, July 6, 2015. Funeral arrangements list visitation on July 9 at National Funeral Home Chapel, services on July 10, and burial at Memorial Gardens Cemetery, reflecting deep local roots.

Though surviving obituary and funeral notices emphasize family and community, later compilations of gun-violence data list Smith among those who died from gunfire, indicating his passing was the result of a fatal shooting rather than natural causes.

There is little in the open record beyond his name, age, place of death, and the classification of the incident as gun violence. Does anyone have information about the circumstances of Benny Smith’s death or who might have been involved?