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The gun that a 32-year-old man used in a daylong killing spree that stretched from Chicago’s South Side into Evanston in January was likely used in at least five other shootings over the past 11 years, documents released to the Tribune on Friday revealed.
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The .45-caliber Glock pistol Jason Nightengale used in a January killing spree that began on the South Side and ended in Evanston was likely used in five prior shootings in Chicago dating to 2009, according to police reports obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Nightengale, 32, killed five people, including a University of Chicago student in an East Hyde Park parking garage, a doorwoman of a nearby condo building, a convenience-store worker on the South Side, a woman he took hostage at an IHOP restaurant in Evanston and a 15-year-old girl, Damia Smith, who fought for her life for more than three weeks at Comer Children’s Hospital before she died.
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February 03, 2021 - 3:22 AM
CHICAGO - A 15-year-old girl has become the fifth person to die from a series of shootings last month by a Chicago gunman who was later killed in a suburban police shootout, authorities said.
Damia Smith was pronounced dead Tuesday at Comer Childrenâs Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examinerâs office. She was riding in a vehicle with her mother when she was shot and had been hospitalized.
According to police, Jason Nightengale, 32, of Chicago, shot seven people in a series of attacks Jan. 9 over a roughly four-hour period. Most of the attacks happened on Chicago s South Side before Nightengale drove to Evanston, just north of the city, where officers killed him during a shootout.