On the evening of December 30, 2024, Daniel Lanard Richardson Jr., 59, was found unresponsive in the middle of a car wash bay on Bellemeade Drive in Marietta, Georgia, with gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. The Marietta Police Department opened a homicide investigation into the shooting.

Detectives used technology and witness interviews to identify a suspect and say Richardson and that person were acquaintances, though the nature of their relationship has not been detailed. No motive has been released.

If anyone was in the Bellemeade Drive area that night or knew Richardson’s contacts and movements, Marietta police want to hear from you.