http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/528599.html
Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in English as NCCU and was completing her master’s degree in the same subject. She worked as a photographer at The Campus Echo, the student newspaper. She also worked an internship at The New York Times in 2004.
“She really could have done anything she wanted,” said Thomas Evans, an associate English professor who knew Smith. Smith also got engaged recently.
The last time former Echo colleague Sheena Johnson spoke with her, Smith was bubbling about her wedding. Her fiance doted on her, Johnson said.
“He put her on a pedestal,” Johnson said. “He loved her every second of every day.”
Johnson and other college friends described Smith as bright, hard-working and caring.
“This hurts really bad,” Johnson said.
This part of the article didn't surprise:
Maintenance workers at Campus Crossings Apartments found Smith about 10 a.m. at the bottom of outdoor concrete stairs. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her body was covered with a white sheet, and it stayed there for hours while police tried to piece together what happened.
Gunshots were reported to police about 8 a.m. Thursday, Maj. Lee Russ of the Durham Police Department said. Police responded and found nothing.
This Smith gal was certainly in the position to get a heck of a scoop
at NCCU. I doubt there was the instinct or motivation, even if the
NYT used her for background. The Campus Echo struggles to get
printed once every two weeks. There is still one lulu of a story being
covered-up over at Central, I'll speculate. Reason why Ammons is
being shifted out as Chancellor.
http://www.nccu.edu/campus/echo/index.html
Yes, it does.
And her murderer is running loose in, possibly, Durham.