Overview
- Smith, who died June 13, was found unresponsive in a vehicle after delivering pizzas to a homeless charity and the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner has confirmed his death.
- The medical examiner has ordered or conducted an autopsy and has not yet released a cause or manner of death, with results still pending.
- Smith’s family has retained attorneys Harry Daniels, Bakari Sellers and Wayne Kendall to lead an independent investigation and to press for answers.
- The family’s lawyers say they arranged for Smith’s brain to be sent to Boston for neuropathological testing for CTE and other trauma-related damage, a condition that can be diagnosed only after death.
- Friends and local reports say a companion found Smith unresponsive after the charity delivery, and the family has named Bishop William Barber II as a spiritual advisor while asking for privacy as official and independent probes continue.