Moment of silence held at TCU-Colorado football game to honor TCU football walk-on killed in shooting

Wes Smith walked on to the TCU football team in 2021. He was shot and killed Friday outside of a Fort Worth bar. Example video title will go here f...

September 3, 2023
7:24 AM

Wes Smith walked on to the TCU football team in 2021. He was shot and killed Friday outside of a Fort Worth bar. Example video title will go here for this video FORT WORTH, Texas — Before TCU and Colorado kicked off their season's in 2023, they held a moment of silence for a former TCU walk-on who was shot and killed Friday outside a Fort Worth bar. Wes Smith was a junior at TCU and walked on to the football team for his freshman year. He came to TCU from Germantown, Tennessee. "Wes was truly an amazing and loving son, brother, cousin, and friend to so many," his family said in a statement through TCU on Friday.

Paul Livengood