An hourslong shooting spree across Chicago killed five people Saturday, including the suspect. Chicago Police Chief David Brown said investigators have not identified a motive.
Identified as Jason Nightengale, 32, the suspect began the spree Saturday afternoon in a parking lot on South East End Avenue, according to ABC News, shooting a 30-year-old University of Chicago student who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Nightengale then reportedly entered an apartment building on the same street where he worked for years as a security guard and shot two more people — a 77-year-old woman getting her mail and a female security guard. Both were taken to the Chicago Medical Center, where the security guard was pronounced dead. The 77-year-old remains in critical condition.
“He proceeded to walk into the building, and I think she told him he had to leave the building — and then he shot her,” a building resident told WLS. “So then she began to run and he shot her again.”
The police said the suspect went into another building on the same street, where he pulled a gun on someone he knew, stole his car, and fled the scene.
After fleeing, Nightengale reportedly went to a store on South Halsted Street and announced a robbery before shooting a 20-year-old man in the head and an 81-year-old woman. The two were taken to a local hospital, where the man was pronounced dead. The woman is in critical condition after suffering gunshots to her back and head.
The suspect fled the store and shot a 15-year-old girl in a car driving down South Halsted, who is also in critical condition. Nightengale returned to the South Halsted store and fired on a police department vehicle that arrived on the scene.
Nightengale was shot by Evanston police officers after attempting another robbery at a CVS and fled to an IHOP, where he shot another woman dead before collapsing from his own injury.
Nightengale was previously arrested in 2005 on charges related to gun and drug violations, criminal trespassing, theft, aggravated assault, reckless conduct, and domestic violence. He was arrested again in 2019 on a domestic battery charge.
