Roll of Honor
Incident
Corporal Smith was electrocuted when he was called to check a body that had been found in marshy water adjacent to the Mobile Causeway. When Corporal Smith waded into the shallow water to retrieve the teenager, he came in contact with a metal post on a billboard, which was later found to have an electrical short. Corporal Smith had served with the Alabama Department of Public Safety for eight years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and two children.
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- August 2, 2026
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Tributes
I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Corporal Smith gave the Alabama Department of Public Safety 8 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Alabama. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corporal Smith.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Corporal Riley Delano Smith is one of 10,095 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,587 officers honored here.
In AL, 182 of 643 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 28.3% of this state's fallen. That is 2.7 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.
At Alabama Department of Public Safety, 21 of 29 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 72.4% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Riley Delano Smith's cause is highlighted.
How Riley Delano Smith Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Riley Delano Smith is highlighted in Dec.
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