In a memorial sprinkled with tears and laughter, fellow students and friends reminded the Tuskegee community to “smile for B.J.” Hundreds gathered in the University Chapel today to pay tribute to the memory and life of student Bobby J. Smith, Jr., who was affectionately known as B.J. to friends and family.
Smith, 21, was fatally wounded Sept. 28 when a shooting occurred at a block party in the City of Tuskegee. The native of Mabelton, Ga., played for the university’s tennis team and was the father of an infant son.
During the memorial, Kyle Spencer, Student Government Association president, said Smith was a friend who could always see the positives in a situation, loved to make people laugh, and was ambitious about his future.
“B.J. was a guy who dreamed big,” Spencer said of the senior finance major. “He always talked to me about making it to Wall Street and how he and I were going to fly to Fashion Week in Milan.”
