On the late morning of January 30, 2025, 44-year-old Samuel Dion Blash was found inside his vehicle on the 1100 block of Wylie Street in Reynoldstown, southeast Atlanta, suffering from a fatal gunshot wound. Atlanta police responded to a reported shooting at about 11 a.m.; Blash was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. Friends and family remember him as a loving father to four children.

Investigators later identified a suspect. In mid-April 2025, 45-year-old Aldrickus Brown was arrested in Conyers by the Atlanta Police Department with help from the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and booked into the Fulton County jail on charges including murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Authorities have not released details about a motive or the relationship, if any, between Blash and Brown as the inquiry continues.

If anyone knew Samuel, his movements that morning, or has information about what led to the shooting, please share what you know.