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On the evening of April 11, 2019, five-year-old Nasha Smith was killed in her Phoenix, Arizona, home in a wave of violence that also took the lives of her mother and older sister. Nasha, described as sweet, spunky and playful, was shot by her father, 30-year-old Austin Smith, who returned home that night and confronted his wife, 29-year-old Dasia Patterson, accusing her of an affair. According to investigators, after killing Dasia and Nasha by gunshot, Smith beat his seven-year-old daughter, Mayan Smith, to death when she cried; a three-year-old sibling was found physically unharmed after hiding under a bed.

After the killings at the family home, Smith drove to an apartment complex where he fatally shot 46-year-old family friend Ron Freeman and then shot and wounded two other people before being stopped and arrested nearby. Smith later told investigators he believed God had told him to kill and that adultery was punishable by death. He was charged in the case and later pleaded guilty to four counts of murder. Does anyone have information about Nasha or the family that could add context to what happened that night?