According to authorities, a 61-year-old woman is the fourth person to die in a series of shootings this month by a Chicago shooter who later died in a police shooting.
CHICAGO – A 61-year-old woman becomes the fourth person to die in a series of shootings this month by a Chicago shooter who later died in a suburban police shooting.
Marta Torres, an Evanston woman who was in critical condition for a week after being shot at an IHOP, died in a hospital on Saturday, according to Cook County Medical Officer. Her autopsy was scheduled for Sunday.
According to police, 32-year-old Jason Nightengale of Chicago shot seven people in a series of attacks on Jan. 9 over a period of about four hours. Most of the attacks took place on Chicago’s South Side before Nightengale drove to Evanston, just north of the city, where he shot Torres before officers killed him during a shootout. The victims were between 15 and 81 years old.
Authorities did not disclose a motive in the killings, which they described as arbitrary. Nightengale posted numerous disturbing and nonsensical short videos on Facebook before the murder. In one one he swings a gun; in another he threatens to ‘blow up the whole community’.
The other three people killed were Yiran Fan, a 30-year-old student from the University of Chicago from China, 20-year-old Anthony Faulkner and 46-year-old security guard Aisha Nevell.
Updated conditions for the three injured, a 15-year-old girl, 77-year-old woman and 81-year-old woman, were not immediately available.
Tiffany McNeal, the mother of 15-year-old girl Damia Smith, told The Chicago Tribune last week that her daughter is fighting for her life in a children’s hospital.
“She’s holding on,” McNeal said. ‘They just say it does not look good. But I believe. I believe in God. ”
According to his LinkedIn page, Nightenagle, a father of twin girls, has been called a caretaker, security guard and forklift driver over the years.
“He fought some demons,” a family member, Annette Nightengale, told The Chicago Sun-Times. “He had problems.”