Chicago police identified the suspect as 32-year-old Jason Nightengale. Nightengale also died after a shooting involving police, officials said.
Cook County court records obtained by the I-Team in the early hours of Sunday reveal a long series of arrests and trials that began in 2005 for gun and drug rape, felony rape, robbery, assault by gun deadly, reckless behavior, and domestic violence.
Investigators said he was living in N. Artesian at the time of his first arrest 16 years ago.
The most recent case against the man in Cook County, before Saturday’s recreation, was a domestic battery housed in October 2019.
According to records, there was a protection court order that violated Nightengale.
It appears that the protection order expired last summer. The victim or relationship is not known in the internal case.
On the occasion of the subway crime crossover for hours on Saturday, Nightengale posted videos of confusing and baffling social media, according to police sources.
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A 30-year-old University of Chicago student is among the dead killed in the Nightengale shooting, CPD said. Another victim was a woman who was shot after being taken hostage at an IHOP in Evanston, according to Evanston police.
Shortly before 2 p.m., a U of C student was shot dead in a garage at the Regent Park apartment complex at 5300 S. East End Avenue, according to police and police officers. the school.
The University received notification that a student had been discovered in a car with a gunshot wound, officials said in a statement to the university community.
The university issued a statement saying, “This is deeply painful news for the university community and our South Side neighborhood. The University will support members of our community affected by this incident.”
Minutes later, a few blocks away, a person entered the lobby of an apartment building on 4900 Island on East End Avenue and asked to use a telephone before opening fire, according to CPD.
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“He proceeded to enter the building and I think she told him he had to leave the building and then shot him. So he started running and he shot him again,” said a neighbor who he did not want to be identified. .
A 77-year-old woman who was inside the building to retrieve the mail was also shot, CPD said.
A woman, who was hit in the chest, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said. The other woman was taken to the same hospital in critical condition.
Neighbors said the murdered woman was the front door of the complex for a long time.
“He was a good person. He has two children I know,” the neighbor said.
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Nightengale then threw a gun at a man, who police said he knew, and pushed him toward an apartment on block 5000 of S. East End Avenue around 2:45 p.m., and asked for the vehicle keys. of the victim. He then headed to a nearby parking lot to locate the victim’s red Toyota and took off.
About an hour later, Chicago police said Nightengale entered a commercial establishment at 9300 block of South Halsted Street. He announced a robbery before firing and hit a 20-year-old man in the head. The victim was taken to Christ Hospital, where he later died. An 81-year-old victim inside the business was also shot in the back and neck. She was taken to the same hospital in critical condition, CPD said.
Police said Nightengale fled the scene and at about 5 p.m., fired from unknown locations and hit a 15-year-old girl in the head while driving in the back seat of a car her mother led to block 10300 south. Halsted Street. According to CPD, the teen is said to be in critical condition at Comer Children’s Hospital. His mother was not injured.
Shortly afterwards, police said Nightengale returned to the scene of the robbery at Block 9300 in S. Halsted, where he fired shots and attacked a Chicago police vehicle.
“We’re responding to the scene as the crimes are happening, getting information and again going to the next one as we try to keep up with what happened earlier,” the Chicago police superintendent said. David Brown. all in all, it’s here in Evanston. “
Evanston police said they answered a call about a man with a gun at an Evanston CVS store near Asbury and Howard around 5:40 p.m. When they arrived, the suspect ran down the street to an IHOP, where he shot a woman he allegedly grabbed. hostage, according to Evanston police chief Demitrous Cook.
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“Because IHOP was parked here, there was a body that shot to the ground. The woman was probably in her mid-40s and bleeding,” witness Israel Lopez said.
Nightengale led police on a chase east by Howard, where they exchanged gunfire near a General Dollar parking lot and Nightengale was fatally wounded by Evanston police, officials said.
“There was an exchange of gunfire. I’m not sure who fired first, but it was in response to the violence he perpetrated in our city,” Cook said.
The woman taken hostage was shot in the head and has since died, CPD said.
Evanston investigators are collaborating with Chicago police to reconcile the Nightengale crime party, which began on Chicago’s South Side and ended in Evanston.
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The Cook County Medical Office has not yet identified the victims.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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