On the evening of Friday, April 15, 2022, 35-year-old Jamal Taliaferro Smith, a South Bend resident, was fatally wounded in a shooting. Local law enforcement responded and opened an investigation into the incident.

Public reports provide few specifics about the circumstances of the shooting, the motive, or whether any suspects have been identified or arrested. Neighbors and acquaintances remember Smith as a member of the community left grieving by a sudden and violent loss.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that night, or have information about Jamal’s activities in the days before April 15, 2022?