Police Brutality / Individual record
Don Smith
Don Smith, 29, was shot and killed by Indiana law enforcement near Monon on April 9, 2015.
- Record ID
- PB-150
- Incident date
- April 9, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Monon, IN
- Agency
- Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department; Wasketa Police Department; Indiana State Police
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 29
What happened
Don Smith, also listed in advocacy compilations as Don Oneal Smith Jr., was killed in a shooting involving Indiana State Police and the Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department on April 9, 2015. A police-killings database places the incident near North Meridian Road in the Monon area of White County. Its coding lists a firearm and a vehicle encounter, but that classification is not an independent eyewitness description or proof that deadly force was unavoidable. The case needs contemporaneous Indiana reporting, the agencies' investigation file and any prosecutorial review before specific claims about Smith's final actions can be treated as established. The present entry documents his identity and death without inventing an arrest narrative.
Investigation & findings
Individual final investigation and officer charging decision were not independently confirmed in this research pass.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 333
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- car
- Agency IDs (source)
- 889;122;124
Last reviewed: October 25, 2026
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset