Sherry Gamble Smith and her husband, Martin Everett Smith, were discovered by police shortly after 8 a.m., police said. Officers who responded to the home found Smith deceased and Martin badly wounded. He was transported to a hospital, where he later died.
The Black business community in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area is reeling after the president and chief executive of the Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce was found dead in her Bixby home on Wednesday., 55, and her husband, Martin Everett Smith, 54, were discovered by police shortly after 8 a.m., Officer Bryan Toney, a spokesman for the Bixby Police Department, told The Daily Beast. Officers who responded to the home found Smith deceased and Martin badly wounded.
A suspect is not being actively sought in the investigation, said police, who have not yet released any details about how the pair died. Gamble Smith, who served as president of the Historic Greenwood Chamber of Commerce before taking her most recent position, was remembered fondly by, interim executive director of the Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center, as “a fellow colleague and a personal friend.”
“She started an organization for women in business called Women Empowering Nations, that literally was a network for women that wanted to start their own businesses, and to give them inspiration and encouragement... She has also been the driving force behind the Juneteenth festival in Tulsa, as it has built up year after year.”
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