Baltimore City officer charged with killing fiancee dies of apparent suicide in jail



BALTIMORE - A Baltimore City police officer James Smith, charged in the death of his fiancée died in an apparent suicide, state correctional officials confirmed. Smith was found by a correctional officer unresponsive in his cell at about  1 a.m. at the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic, and Classification Center (MRDCC) at Greenmount and Madison in Baltimore. Smith, a 20-year veteran of the department, was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing Kendra Diggs , 37, on May 7 during  a domestic situation at a home in the 1100 block of N. Parrish Street. Police said Smith shot Diggs from his second-story window as she was standing on the sidewalk with an officer. He then barricaded himself into his home for six hours with the couple’s 4-year-old son.