On the evening of March 22, 2023, 23-year-old Dacari Early was found in the doorway of an apartment at the Pines at West Cobb in Marietta, Georgia, with multiple gunshot wounds. First responders arrived around 7:30 p.m.; Early was later pronounced dead at the complex.

Cobb County Police investigators identified 22-year-old Joshua Nash of Cincinnati, Ohio, as the alleged shooter and obtained arrest warrants charging him with murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Nash was believed to have possibly returned to Ohio but was located and arrested the next day in Rome, Georgia, and booked into the Floyd County Jail. Authorities also charged him in Floyd County with credit card theft, making false statements to police, and two counts of giving false identification.

Officials have not released a motive for the shooting. If anyone knew Dacari, was at the Pines at West Cobb that evening, or has information about what led to the shooting, please come forward.