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 fatal
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