“We’re just livin’ life with no answers and broken hearts,” she said. Smith’s sister, Tamara Wilson, said it’s been so hard on the family that they’re not the same, as a family or as individuals. “They followed him from the restaurant to the parking lot, waited ‘til he into the car and caged him in.” If they was comin’ to arrest him, they had time to arrest him when he was in the restaurant,” Smith’s mother said. Marshals and deputies from the Hennepin and Ramsey County sheriffs’ offices, the officers were allegedly there to arrest Smith for illegal possession of a firearm. Part of the “North Star Fugitive Task Force,” which included U.S. Once inside their vehicle they were boxed in by eight unmarked trucks and SUVs, and Smith was fatally shot. Lake St.) with a woman he had recently begun dating, Norhan Askar, before returning to the parking ramp. On June 3, 2021, Smith had lunch at Stella’s Fish Café (1400 W. “Not a single day goes by that I don’t visualize how they him,” said his mother Tijuana Wilson at the June 3 gathering. at the top of an Uptown parking ramp, his family, friends and community members gathered at Powderhorn Park to remember Smith – and to demand answers. One year after law enforcement officers killed 32-year-old father and comedian Winston “Boogie” Smith Jr.
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