S.F. AD Exec Dies In Altercation

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John M. Smart Jr., managing director of brand identity firm Interbrand Gerstman + Meyers, San Francisco –which has developed brand names such as Aptiva and Prozac–died Oct. 6 after a confrontation with two San Francisco police officers in the city’s Tenderloin District.
Authorities said Smart, 46, was shot four times after allegedly hitting, and attempting to hit, the officers with his 1996 Mercedes-Benz SL convertible. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
San Francisco authorities said the officers saw Smart trying to forcibly pull an unidentified woman out of his car.

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