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# Baltimore Police Spokesman’s Brother Becomes Homicide Victim
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/baltimore-police-spokesmans-brother-is-citys-173rd-homicide-victim/
- Published: 2017-07-06T18:30:22.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-24T00:33:55.000Z
- Author: Guest Columnist
- Tags: PR, Media, Communications, Maryland News, #wp-bottom-left-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:48

**T.J. Smith, the well-known Baltimore Police Department spokesman who is seen on TV and quoted in newspapers in Baltimore almost daily**, had some difficult news to announce this week after his brother, **Dionay Smith,** was found fatally shot in his home on July 2.

“I last spoke to my brother last week,” Smith said during a difficult and emotional press conference. “He has twins who have the same birthday as my son.”

[According to a report in The Sun](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-smith-homicide-arrest-20170706-story.html?ref=capitolcommunicator.com), Smith said that his 24-year-old brother was targeted, calling Dion’s killer a “coward.” On July 6 the police announced an arrest of **Terrell Gibson**, 21, on charges of first- and second-degree murder and first- and second-degree assault.

“My brother had a very kind heart. It appears that someone he knows – that he was probably kind to – took advantage of him,” T.J. Smith told The Sun.

A friend of the Maryland chapter of PRSA, Smith presented a workshop on the use of social media in 2016\. During the most recent Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit in Baltimore, Smith was the focus of a fireside chat when he appeared on stage with Capitol Communicator Baltimore editor and [Van Eperen](http://www.vaneperen.com/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) managing director **Jeffrey Davis** to talk about the police department’s social media program which is recognized as one of the best in the nation.