A 32-year-old man is dead and a 21-year-old man wounded after a shooting incident outside Bodi nightclub on the Near North side of Chicago, where rapper Nas appeared in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
The appearance was part of an unofficial Lollapalooza after-party. Nas had already played his set at Grant Park on Saturday, and then also performed at the House of Blues afterwards before he was scheduled to make his way to Bodi.
According to the Chicago Tribune, bullets began flying at roughly 3:50 a.m. Sunday.
Officers were on patrol in the 800 block of North Orleans Street when they heard gunfire and saw a subject running from the area. Police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic said that no injuries were discovered during the officer-involved shooting, but things quickly turned tragic when police made a quick search of the grounds outside the club.
That's where they found two victims -- a 32-year-old man who was dead on the scene and a 21-year-old man shot and "seriously wounded" in the abdomen. Sedevic said a weapon was also discovered at the scene.
The man who died, Martrell Ross, who has been arrested multiple times for drug offenses in the past 15 years, according to the Tribune was found in the alley across the street west of the club, and the injured man was on a sidewalk near the parking lot.
Police are uncertain about what might have led to the shooting, and taped off a large portion that precluded people from getting back into their cars in the nearby parking lot.
No word yet from Nas or his camp on the incident. The Brooklyn vet has been on a festival kick lately while promoting his new video for "Represent," an Illmatic track that waited two decades for screen time. Nas' next stop is the Squamish Music Festival in British Columbia on Sept. 8.
