Javon Cherrl Smith, 21, known to friends and family as BoBo, was found with a gunshot wound late on September 11, 2023, at the Wilson Apartments in the 3400 block of 8th Avenue in Columbus, Georgia. Paramedics attempted life-saving measures, but a deputy coroner pronounced him dead at 12:01 a.m. on September 12. Investigators from the Violent Crimes Unit took over the scene as the complex was already rattled by a second recent shooting there within roughly two days.

Police developed probable cause and obtained warrants charging 18-year-old Jadarious Greene with murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and asked the public for help locating him. On October 8, 2024, law enforcement, including the U.S. Marshals Service and local agencies, arrested Greene without incident; he was booked on the same charges and was expected to appear in court the next morning. Was anyone in the area that night who saw or heard anything that could help fill in what happened?