A memorial fund has been set up in support of the family of Tomarken Smith, a Northwest Missouri State University student who died Friday morning as the result of an alleged assault in Maryville.

The Sigma Phi Epsilon Alumni Board has set up a fund to assist Tomarken’s family. Monetary donations may be made to:

Tomarken Smith Memorial Fund
c/o Citizens Bank and Trust
105 N. Main St.
Maryville, MO 64468

 

 

Tomarken’s family has asked that cards and notes be collected and sent to them in a single mailing. Anyone who wishes to do so should provide such correspondence to Northwest’s Office of Campus Activities, located on the second floor of the J.W. Jones Student Union. The office will collect these items between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Smith, 21, of St. Louis, was a senior pre-professional studies major with a minor in coaching. He was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, a former resident assistant on the Northwest campus and a current student employee at the University fitness center.

Two Bethany men, Kevin Mooney and Tony Overlin, are accused of laying in wait outside a downtown Maryville bar for Smith, with whom they’d had an argument inside the bar. Just before 1:30 a.m. Friday, an officer spotted the pair running from the scene where Smith was knocked to the pavement and lost consciousness. He died about an hour later at St Francis.

Mooney and Overlin are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on murder charges.  Click here for more.