Woman charged after shooting victim dies
A 35-year-old woman is accused of shooting a man in the back of the neck outside her West Side apartment in January, leading to his death two months later.
Salina Alishia Alrawahna was indicted Tuesday by a Franklin County grand jury on two counts of murder with gun specifications in the death of 40-yearold David R. Nutt.
She also was indicted for having a gun despite a felony conviction.
Columbus police said Nutt was found Jan. 31 at the bottom of a rear staircase leading to the woman’s second-floor apartment in the 2600 block of Wicklow Road.
The wound left him partially paralyzed, and he died March 27 at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center of a lung infection and other complications, his widow told The Dispatch.
Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said Nutt reportedly had given his cash card to Alrawahna and went to her apartment to retrieve it. When she refused to give it up, he took her purse and left, prompting Alrawahna to grab a gun and shoot Nutt as he was walking away, O’Brien said.
Alrawahna was not permitted to possess a gun because of a 2001 burglary conviction.
Tina Nutt told The Dispatch after her husband’s death that he had struggled with posttraumatic stress disorder and a heroin addiction for years since his service with the Army in Iraq.
The couple had moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2013 but he returned to the Columbus area after they separated last year, she said.