Robert Benjamin Smith

Biography

Robert Benjamin Smith (February 10, 1948 – April 21, 2024) was an American mass murderer, who, on November 12, 1966, shot and killed five people—four women and a toddler—and injured two others at the Rose-Mar College of Beauty in Mesa, Arizona, United States. All seven victims had been shot and one of the victims who initially survived her wounds was stabbed in the back.