Authorities say a 61-year-old woman became the fourth person to die in a series of shootings this month at a Chicago gunman who later died in a police shooting.
CHICAGO – A 61-year-old woman became the fourth person to die in a series of shootings this month at a Chicago gunman who later died in a suburban police shooting, Sunday reported the authorities.
Marta Torres, a woman from Evanston who had been in critical condition for a week after being shot at an IHOP, died Saturday at a hospital, according to Cook County Medical Office. His autopsy was scheduled for Sunday.
According to police, Jason Nightengale, 32, of Chicago, shot seven people in a series of attacks on Jan. 9 for about four hours. Most of the attacks happened on the south side of Chicago before Nightengale drove to Evanston, just north of the city, where he shot Torres before officers killed him during a shooting. The victims were between 15 and 81 years old.
Authorities have not revealed any motive in the killings, which they described as random. Nightengale posted numerous short and disturbing and absurd videos on Facebook before the murders. In one, he brandished a pistol; in another, he threatened to “exploit the whole community.”
The other three people who died were Yiran Fan, a 30-year-old Chinese University of Chicago student, Anthony Faulkner, 20, and security guard Aisha Nevell, 46.
The updated conditions of the other three injured, a 15-year-old girl, a 77-year-old woman and an 81-year-old woman, were not immediately available.
Tiffany McNeal, the mother of 15-year-old Damia Smith, told The Chicago Tribune last week that her daughter was fighting for her life in a children’s hospital.
“She’s holding on,” McNeal said. “It simply came to our notice then. But I am believing. I believe in God. “
Nightenagle, the father of twin girls, posted her work over the years as a porter, security guard and forklift operator, according to her LinkedIn page.
“I was fighting some demons,” a relative, Annette Nightengale, told The Chicago Sun-Times. “He had some problems.”