


The FBI announced it arrested a Milwaukee man Tuesday in connection with a 1991 Gary murder.
Quentin Maurice Smith, 50, was charged Friday in Lake Superior Court with the Nov. 26, 1991 murder of John Thomas Currie, who was then 35, FBI spokeswoman Chris Bavender said.
Court records do not yet show public charges.
A family member and friend found Currie stabbed multiple times inside his apartment on the 2000 block of Carolina Street, according to newspaper reports. He had been stabbed in the head, face and neck. A coroner determined he died of stab wounds to the neck, and had additional defensive wounds on his hands. Gary Police had no motive at the time, according to media reports.
Detectives from the FBI’s Gang Response Investigative Team (GRIT) reopened the case last year, linking Smith through DNA evidence from the crime scene, she said.
The FBI’s Milwaukee Area Violent Crimes Task Force and GRIT investigators arrested Smith Tuesday as he was being discharged from parole. He is expected to be extradited back to Lake County. Gary Police, the Lake County Sheriff’s Crime Scene Unit, and the Wisconsin Department of Correction’s Parole Commission assisted.
Anyone with further information on a cold case can reach GRIT at 219-942-4899.