This is definitely an assassination.
Community leader and her husband found dead inside Bixby home
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The president of the Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and her husband were fatally injured in their Bixby home Wednesday morning in circumstances that police say appear to be “domestic in nature.”
Police responding to a call about a death inside a home near 96th Street and Mingo Road around 8 a.m. found Sherry Yvonne Smith dead and her husband, Martin Everett Smith, wounded, the Bixby Police Department reported in a press release.
The husband was taken in critical condition to a hospital where he later died, according to police.
Sherry Yvonne Smith is also known as
Sherry Gamble Smith, who is the president of the Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, according to the organization’s website.
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Authorities have not released specific information on the cause and manner of the couple’s deaths, but the Bixby Police Department did issue another press release Wednesday evening, saying the situation “appears to be domestic in nature but the investigation is still underway to determine the timeline and what (led) to this tragedy.”
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is assisting with the investigation.
Gamble Smith
Tulsa World file
ashley.jones@tulsaworld.com
The president of the Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and her husband were fatally injured in their Bixby home Wednesday morning.
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