By JARED LANSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS
Homicide Watch Chicago
At least 8 people were killed in Chicago violence this week, and a ninth person may have been a homocide victim, though an autopsy proved inconclusive.
The most talked-about killing was that of 40-year-old Alprentiss Nash on the Near West Side on Tuesday
Nash was shot in the chest in the 400 block of South Paulina at 2:20 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He died at Stroger Hospital.
Nash was best known for spending 17 years in prison on a murder conviction that was overturned in 2012. He has been convicted of the murder and robbery of a Chicago man on the South Side in 1995, but was later exonerated by DNA evidence.
However, two days after the fatal confrontation, police said the shooter may have acted in self-defense.
Nash tried to rob 30-year-old Mount Prospect resident Paul Vukadinovic, “with whom he had a long drug history,” according to a police statement released Thursday.Both men were armed and they exchanged gunfire, police said.
The shooting is “being explored as a possible self-defense case,” police said.
Vukadinovic was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and carrying a loaded gun without a concealed carry permit. His bond was set at $100,000 Friday.
Corey Wallace was stabbed to death in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side on Monday night.
Wallace, 21, was stabbed in the chest at 7:20 p.m. near his home in the 7700 block of South Kedize, according to Chicago Police and the medical examiner’s office. He died 30 minutes later at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
There may have been one additional homicide last week, as police are conducting a death investigation after a 20-year-old woman was found dead in an Austin neighborhood home Wednesday afternoon.
About 12:50 p.m. Wednesday, officers found Brooklyn Ashby, of the 5000 block of West Concord, dead in a house in the 4900 block of West Kamerling.
The body showed signs of head trauma, but an autopsy Thursday was inconclusive, with results pending further studies.