Chicago police identified the suspect as 32-year-old Jason Nightengale. Nightengale is also dead after a shooting involving police, officials said.
Cook County Court documents obtained by I-Team early Sunday reveal a long string of arrests and prosecutions that began in 2005 for weapons and drug violations, criminal trespass, theft, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, reckless behavior and domestic violence.
He was living on N. Artesian at the time of the first arrest 16 years ago, investigators said.
The most recent case against the man in Cook County, prior to Saturday’s shooting, was a domestic battery filed in October 2019.
According to the records, a court order for protection had struck Nightengale that he had violated.
The protection order appears to have expired last summer. The victim or the relationship in the domestic business is unknown.
Leading up to Saturday’s hour-long, metro-crossing crime, Nightengale posted unclear and creeping social media videos, according to law enforcement sources.
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A 30-year-old University of Chicago student is one of the victims who died in the Nightengale shooting, CPD said. Another victim was a woman who was shot after being held hostage at an IHOP in Evanston, according to Evanston police.
Police and school officials say a student of U of C was shot dead in a parking garage of the Regent Park apartment complex in block 5300 of S. East End Avenue just before 2:00 PM.
The university received word that a student had been found in a car with a gunshot wound, officials said in a statement to the university’s community.
The university issued a statement saying, “This is very painful news for the university community and our South Side neighborhood. The university will provide support to members of our community affected by this incident.”
A few minutes later, a few blocks away, a person entered the vestibule of an apartment building in block 4900 of S. East End Avenue and asked to use a telephone before opening fire, CPD said.
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“He walked into the building and I think she told him to leave the building and then he shot her. So then she started running and he shot her again,” said a neighbor who did not want to be identified. .
A 77-year-old woman collecting mail in the building was also shot, CPD said.
A woman, who was beaten in the chest, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, according to police. The other woman was taken to the same hospital in critical condition.
Neighbors said the murdered woman was the old porter of the complex.
‘She was a good person. She has two children that I know, ”said the neighbor.
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Nightengale then pulled a gun at a man police said he knew and pushed him into an apartment in the 5000 block of S. East End Avenue at around 2:45 PM and demanded the keys to the victim’s vehicle. He then went to a nearby parking garage to locate the victim’s red Toyota and left.
About an hour later, Chicago police said Nightengale entered a store located at 9300 South Halsted Street. He announced a robbery before firing shots, punching a 20-year-old man in the head. The victim was transported to Christ Hospital, where he later died. An 81-year-old victim within the company was also shot in the back and neck. She was transported to the same hospital in critical condition, CPD said.
Police said Nightengale then fled the scene and at about 5:00 p.m. he fired shots from an unknown location, punching a 15-year-old girl in the head while driving in the backseat of a car her mother was driving in the 10300 block from South. Halsted Street. The teen is said to be in critical condition at Comer Children’s Hospital, according to CPD. Her mother was not injured.
A short time later, police said Nightengale was returning to the scene of the robbery in S. Halsted’s 9300 block, where he subsequently fired shots and hit a police car.
“We respond to the scene while the crimes are taking place, get information, and again he goes to the next as we try to keep up with what happened before,” said Chicago Police Commissioner David Brown. all in all, he’s here in Evanston. “
Evanston police said they responded to a call about a man with a gun at an Evanston CVS store near Asbury and Howard at around 5:40 PM. When they arrived, the suspect ran across the street to an IHOP, where he shot a woman he allegedly took hostage, according to Evanston Police Chief Demitrous Cook.
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“When I parked here at IHOP, a body was shot on the ground here. A female probably in her mid-40s, bleeding,” said witness Israel Lopez.
Nightengale then led police on an eastbound chase on Howard, where they exchanged gunfire near a Dollar General parking lot and Nightengale was fatally injured by Evanston police, officials said.
“There was gunfire. I’m not sure who shot first, but it was in response to the violence he had committed in our town,” Cook said.
The hostage woman was shot in the head and has since died, CPD said.
Evanston investigators are teaming up with the Chicago Police Department to bring together the Nightengale crime wave that started in Chicago’s South Side and ended in Evanston.
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The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet identified the victims.
This is a story in development and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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