Marta Torres was killed in a shooting rampage that began on the South Side of Chicago and ended in Evanston. Her family remembers her as a loving mother and grandmother who dedicated her life to teaching
Jan 18, 2021
CHICAGO (AP) A 61-year-old woman became the fourth person to die from a series of shootings this month by a Chicago gunman who was later killed in a suburban police shootout, authorities said Sunday. Marta Torres, an Evanston woman who had been in critical condition for a week after being shot at an IHOP, died Saturday at a hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Her autopsy was scheduled for Sunday. According to police, 32-year-old Jason Nightengale, 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 he shot Torres before officers killed him during a shootout.
Marta Torres, 61, of Evanston died after she was critically wounded at an Evanston IHOP in the 100-block of Asbury Avenue last Saturday.
She is one of seven people shot and three others killed by 32-year-old Jason Nightengale, according to police. Among the other victims killed was 30-year-old University of Chicago Ph.D. student Yiran Fan, 46-year-old mother of two Aisha Johnson, and 20-year-old Anthony Faulkner who had just moved back to Chicago.
The three victims killed in a shooting rampage Saturday have been identified as family and friends reel from the senseless loss of their loved ones.
Yiran was the first of the seven victims and was found shot to death in a Hyde Park parking garage. Friends remember him as a brilliant student and a positive, loving person.