CHICAGO (AP) – A man killed three people and injured four others in a series of shootings for about four hours that began on Chicago’s South Side and ended in his death in a shootout with police in a parking lot 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 neighborhood garage. of Hyde Park, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown told reporters. He did not disclose any of the victims’ names.
The shooter, Jason Nightengale, 32, entered “randomly” into an apartment building a block away, where he shot a 46-year-old security guard who was sitting at the counter and a woman from 77 years. who received the mail from him, Brown said. The guard was pronounced dead at a hospital and the elderly woman, who was shot in the head, was hospitalized in critical condition, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Nightengale went to another nearby building and stole a car from a man she knew. He then went to a convenience store and fired shots, killing a 20-year-old man and injuring an 81-year-old woman in the head and neck, Brown said. The woman was also in critical condition.
After leaving the store, Nightengale shot a 15-year-old girl who was riding in a car with her mother, leaving the girl in critical condition, police said. He then returned to the convenience store and fired at officers investigating the previous shooting. None of them were injured, Brown said.
Nightengale then drove 16 miles north to Evanston, which borders Chicago, where police responded to a report of shots that had been fired inside a CVS. Nightengale had apparently entered the pharmacy, announced he was stealing it and fired shots that did not hit anyone, authorities said. He then crossed the street to an IHOP restaurant, where he shot a woman in the neck. He was in critical condition, Evanston police chief Demitrous Cook told reporters.
Nightengale left the restaurant and confronted officers in a parking lot, prompting a shootout in which he was shot dead, Cook said.
Brown said the information he shared at the press conference was preliminary and could change. He said the researchers had very little information about Nightengale, but plan to publish more details as they get them.
“When you hear this whole story, it looks like you have a crystal ball from what follows, and we all know we don’t have a glass ball where it’s going, nor do we have it in any of our POD cameras,” Brown said. . “We’re responding to the scene as these crimes occur, getting information and again going to the next one as 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 IHOP woman was shot in the neck, not in the head.