Court docs: IMPD Detectives had suspects’ names all along throughout 2021 cold case

Ail Smith Jr.’s loved ones never understood how the business and family man could be shot and left for dead.

His wife said the last time she saw the 47-year-old, they had just finished working on their box truck company. That was hours before Smith was found shot in the head, rolled up in a rug, and left in the trunk of his own car set on fire back in 2021.

“What was the reason? Why did he do it?” His father, Ail Smith Sr., told IndyStar this week following the announcement of arrests in the case…

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