Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith was a 29-year-old Cincinnati resident whose life was cut short on July 21, 2020. Public records identify him with the Mt. Washington neighborhood and show he was living in the area of Beechmont Avenue at the time. Though few personal details appear in the public record, the facts confirm he was a young man known to his community in Cincinnati.

Local reporting from the day notes the shooting occurred at an apartment complex in the 5400 block of Beechmont Avenue; the event drew the attention and concern of neighbors and the city’s police. One detail published at the time — that a bullet traveled through an adjoining apartment and nearly struck a child — underscores the broader community impact of the loss and the shock felt by those who lived nearby.

There is limited publicly available information about Kevin’s personal life, work, or family in the sources that identify him, and no family-published obituary or funeral notice matching his name and the July 21, 2020 date could be located. That scarcity of detail does not diminish the value of his life; it simply means the public record preserves only a small portion of who he was. What is clear is that Kevin was a person whose presence mattered locally — to neighbors, to those who lived in his building, and to the city that recorded his passing.

Those wishing to honor Kevin’s memory might recall that behind every brief news line is a whole life: relationships, routines, and small acts of connection known to friends and family. If relatives or friends choose to share memories or create a family-authored remembrance, that would provide the fuller portrait Kevin deserves. For now, we acknowledge him respectfully by name, by the city he called home, and by the fact that his loss was felt by his community.