Claude D. Smith
Name: Claude D. Smith
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 07/20/2004
Location: E 21st St. and N Oliver Ave.
Wichita, Kansas, 67220
County: Sedgwick
Agency: Wichita Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Claude D. Smith was killed after the allegedly stolen Oldsmobile he was in crashed into a utility pole during a police chase. According to police, officers began following the car shortly after a robbery was reported at a nearby gas station. Smith was thrown from the Oldsmobile at about 2:15 a.m. Police said Smith and the two women in the car were not the gas station robbery suspects officers had been seeking. The driver, Kelly Collins, 19, was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for second-degree murder.
Unique ID: 3526
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