Four dead following shooting spree in Chicago area
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By JULIA JACOBO, ABC News
(CHICAGO) Four people are dead, including the suspect, after an hourslong shooting spree across the Chicago area.
The bloodshed began Saturday at 1:50 p.m. when a man entered a parking lot on South East End Avenue in Chicago and shot a 30-year-old man who was sitting inside a car, according to the Chicago Police Department. The victim, a student at the University of Chicago, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The suspect then entered an apartment building on the same street around 2 p.m. and fired shots at a female security guard, who was shot in the chest, as well as a 77-year-old woman who was retrieving her mail, police said. They were both transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where the security guard was pronounced dead and the 77-year-old woman remains in critical condition.
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Police investigate a shooting scene at the corner of Asbury and Howard, on the Chicago-Evanston border, Jan. 9. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
Illinois shooting leaves at least three dead
CHICAGO A man suspected of killing at least three people and wounding four more “just randomly” targeted a girl of 15, an 81-year-old woman and people of different ages in between before he was killed during a shootout with Evanston police, officials said.
The man shot dead by Evanston police was identified by Chicago police Superintendent David Brown as 32-year-old Jason Nightengale, who was a suspect in three fatal shootings on Chicago’s South Side earlier in the day.
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A female victim was fatally shot in the chest, and another suffered a wound to the face Saturday afternoon in the East Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.