Authorities say a 61-year-old woman has become the fourth person to die in a series of shootings this month by a Chicago gunman who was later killed in a police fire
CHICAGO – A 61-year-old woman has become the fourth person to die in a series of shootings this month by a Chicago gunman who was later killed in a suburban police fire, authorities said Sunday .
Marta Torres, a woman from Evanston, who had been in critical condition for a week after being shot in an IHOP, died on Saturday in a hospital, according to Cook’s doctor’s office. Her autopsy was scheduled for Sunday.
According to police, 32-year-old Jason Nightengale from Chicago shot seven people in a series of attacks on January 9 for about four hours. Most of the attacks took place in the southern part of Chicago, before Nightengale went to Evanston, just north of the city, where he shot Torres before officers killed him during a gunfight. The victims are between 15 and 81 years old.
Authorities did not disclose a motive in the murder, which they described as random. Nightengale posted on Facebook numerous short disturbing and meaningless videos before the murders. In one he brandished a weapon; in another he threatened to “blow up the whole community.”
The other three people killed were Yiran Fan, a 30-year-old student at the University of Chicago in China, 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.
“It’s holding,” McNeal said. “It simply came to our notice then. But I think. I believe in god. ”
Nightenagle, a father of twin girls, has listed her work over the years as a porter, security guard and forklift operator, according to her LinkedIn page.
“They’re fighting demons,” a relative, Annette Nightengale, told The Chicago Sun-Times. “He had some problems.”