On November 24, 2017, 23-year-old Daniel Nash of Fairview Heights, Illinois, was shot and killed in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The shooting happened about 5:05 p.m. in the 1500 block of South Ridgeway Avenue when an unidentified person approached Nash, fired shots, and ran away on foot. Nash suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead roughly 25 minutes later.

The killing was one of several shootings during a violent Thanksgiving weekend in the city, a period that left seven men dead and at least 36 others wounded across multiple neighborhoods. No arrests or suspect identifications have been publicly reported, and police have not released additional details about leads. If anyone has information about Daniel Nash or the shooting on South Ridgeway Avenue, please come forward.