Overview

• A DeKalb County jury convicted 25-year-old Taco Nash on 13 counts, including malice murder and felony murder, for the June 15, 2022, shooting of Mi’ckeya Montgomery outside a Decatur daycare.
• Judge Brian Lake ordered Nash to serve life without parole plus two additional life terms and 60 years immediately after the guilty verdict.
• He spat at the prosecution team as he was escorted from the courtroom, an outburst that shocked Montgomery’s family.
• Montgomery’s relatives obtained a permanent protective order prohibiting Nash from contacting their 18-month-old daughter.
• Medical examiners determined the angle of the gunshot disproved Nash’s self-inflicted claim and established the killing as a deliberate homicide.