'You'll kill me someday': Man forced his girlfriend to walk into the woods where he shot her as she held their baby

A Georgia antheral who forced his woman into a wooded country and shot her dormant portion she held their baby was recovered blameworthy by a assemblage and sentenced to beingness successful prison.

Taco Nash, 22, was convicted of 13 felony counts successful transportation with the June 2022 decease of 21-year-old Mic'Keya Montgomery, who was the parent of his 16-month-old daughter. According to courtroom reporting by section ABC affiliate WSB, prosecutors said that Nash stalked Montgomery to a time attraction halfway successful Decatur and attempted to forcibly region her and the baby. Nash past kidnapped the parent and child, dragged Montgomery into a wooded country adjacent astatine gunpoint arsenic she held the small girl, and changeable her dead.

The kid was not injured, and she appears to beryllium surviving with Montgomery's family.

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During the trial, DeKalb County Senior Assistant District Attorney Ashley Johnson showed the tribunal video that showed Nash accosting Montgomery extracurricular the time attraction halfway connected June 15, 2022. As Montgomery waited for a ride-sharing conveyance with her small girl, Nash ran up to her, and she yelled astatine him to leave. The young parent ran backmost wrong the time attraction retired of fear.

Nash went wrong the time attraction and started making convulsive threats, causing a unreserved of employees and parents trying to get the children wrong to safety. Johnson told the tribunal that Nash screamed, "I'm going to termination you. I'm going to termination that baby, and past I'm going to termination myself."

One of the prosecution's witnesses was the center's bureau manager, who corroborated that mentation of events. She testified that Nash refused to permission Montgomery unsocial and terrorized her during the clip helium was wrong the time care.

Nash's past of maltreatment against Montgomery was besides brought up successful court, according to WSB's reporting. At the clip of her death, Montgomery had breached up with Nash due to the fact that of the maltreatment she suffered astatine his hands. Johnson work a enactment written by Montgomery 2 weeks earlier her decease that said, "I can't enactment immoderate longer due to the fact that if I do, you'll termination maine someday."

Nash's defence attorney, Arnold Ragas, attempted to person the tribunal that Montgomery changeable herself, pointing to a enactment she had purportedly written that was recovered successful her purse. Ragas besides noted that the weapon that killed Montgomery was recovered successful her ain hand, and Nash was recorded connected video telling police, "She changeable herself."

The jury, however, was not convinced. After deliberating for 4 hours, they recovered Nash blameworthy connected each count, including 1 number of malice murder, 4 counts of felony murder, 2 counts of kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated stalking, and cruelty to children.

Nash was fixed 3 beingness sentences without the anticipation of parole positive 60 years. A imperishable protective bid was besides imposed for Montgomery's family.