CHICAGO (AP) – A man killed three people and wounded four others in a series of shootings over about four hours that began on the South Side of Chicago and ended in his death in a shootout with police on a parking lot just north of the city.
Investigators are trying to determine the motive for the attacks, which began Saturday afternoon with the murder of a 30-year-old University of Chicago student who was shot in the head while sitting in his car in a parking garage in the Hyde Park neighborhood. . Police Superintendent David Brown in Chicago told reporters. He did not disclose the names of any of the victims.
The shooter, 32-year-old Jason Nightengale, then ‘randomly’ walked into an apartment building a block away, where he shot a 46-year-old security guard sitting at the desk and a 77-year-old woman. who got her job, Brown said. The guard was pronounced dead at a hospital and the elderly woman, who was shot in the head, was hospitalized in a critical condition, the Chicago Tribune said. report.
Nightengale went to another nearby building and stole a car from a man he knew. He then went to a convenience store and fired shots, killing a 20-year-old man and wounding an 81-year-old woman in the head and neck, Brown said. The woman was also in a critical condition.
After she left the store, Nightengale shot a 15-year-old girl who was driving in a car with her mother and left the girl in a critical condition. He then returned to the convenience store and shot at officers investigating the earlier shooting. None of them were injured, Brown said.
Nightengale then drove about 16 miles north to Evanston, which borders Chicago, where police responded to a report of shots fired in a CVS. Nightengale apparently walked into the pharmacy, announced he was robbing it and fired shots that hit no one, authorities said. He then went across the street to an IHOP restaurant, where he shot a woman in the neck. She was in a critical condition, Demitrous Cook, chief of police in Evanston, told reporters.
Nightengale left the restaurant and was confronted by officers in a parking lot, which led to a shootout in which he was shot dead, Cook said.
Brown said the information he shared at the news conference was preliminary and could change. He said investigators have very little information about Nightengale but plan to release more details as they get it.
‘When you hear this whole story, it looks like you have a crystal ball of what he’s doing next, and we all know we do not have a crystal ball where he’s going, nor on one of our POD cameras, Said Brown. “We respond to the scene as these crimes take place, get information, and again he goes to the next one, while we try to keep up with what happened before.”
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An earlier version of this story was corrected to reflect that police said the woman was shot in the neck at the IHOP, not in the head.