Trooper Ronald Gordon Smith

Ronald Gordon Smith

Trooper Ronald Smith was shot and killed while checking on two suspicious parked on a dirt road east of U.S. 19, three miles north of Crystal River in Citrus County.

The subjects attempted to flee but two nearby hunters shot and wounded one of them and then captured both.

Trooper Smith was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. He had served with the Florida Highway Patrol for three months and had previously served with the Tallahassee Police Department. He was survived by his wife and 2-year-old daughter.