Marlon Smith, 29

Dallas, Texas
February 27, 2018

Cause of death: Shooting


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Last updated: almost 6 years ago

Overview

Marlon Smith was shot and killed during a shootout with Dallas Police after a deadly shooting at a Dallas apartment complex, Tuesday February 27, 2018. Dallas police say the man suspected of fatally shooting a woman at a Dallas apartment building in Tuesday morning was later shot and killed by officers.

Police were first called at about 10:16 a.m. to an apartment complex in the 2300 block of North Field Street, where the woman was found dead. Police identified her as 52-year-old Nancy Churchwell.

At about 1 p.m., Dallas police officers and a U.S. Marshal later encountered the suspect — identified by police as 29-year-old Marlon Smith — at a home on the 2100 block of Hulse Boulevard in Pleasant Grove. 

Smith fired at the officers, who returned gunfire, killing him, police said.

No officers were injured.