Woman who shot her boyfriend 4 times in the back and tried to claim self-defense learns her fate

An Illinois pistillate who shot her fellow successful the backmost during an argument has been sentenced to decades successful prison.

Tnashia Wash, 20, was a teen erstwhile she fired six shots astatine 30-year-old Roderick Richardson connected Oct. 16, 2023. According to the Peoria County State's Attorney's Office, Wash admitted to police astatine the clip that she changeable Richardson, but claimed that it was successful self-defense. She and her kid had been staying astatine Richardson's location astatine the time, and the mates got into a combat astir their relationship. Wash claimed that Richardson threatened to sprout her and her child, and she took his gun, firing six shots erstwhile helium "charged" astatine her.

But an autopsy connected Richardson determined that 4 of those shots deed him successful the back.

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According to prosecutors, the coroner determined that the 4 shots to the backmost that deed Richardson were not fired astatine adjacent range. His gunshot wounds were inconsistent with Wash's claims of self-defense.

Wash yet pleaded blameworthy to first-degree execution successful June, days earlier she was acceptable to spell to trial. Due to her young property astatine the clip of the crime, Chief Judge Katherine Gorman sentenced Wash to 31 years successful prison. She could beryllium eligible for parole aft 20 years.

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Prosecutors said that Richardson's parent wrote a missive that was work astatine the sentencing proceeding that described the "unimaginable symptom of having to hide her son." Richardson's parent wrote that Wash "didn't conscionable instrumentality her son's beingness but shattered their household and near a imperishable spread that tin ne'er beryllium repaired."