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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.
Evanston Police Department
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.
Brown was taken into custody on Tuesday in the 7000-block of South East End Ave. and has been charged with two counts of murder and one coun of arson, police said.
The fire broke out in a single-family home that left a mother and her daughter dead and several others injured.
Relatives identified the victims as Ieashia Ford and her 10-year-old daughter Porsche.
The pair were sleeping when someone set the house on fire, according to the family. She went back in to get her daughter, said Darryl Fields, the victims relative. They passed away in the doorway and she had the baby in her arms.
A 14-year-old boy was charged with carjacking an off-duty cop in the Kenwood neighborhood.
The teen, who was on home electronic monitoring for a different charge, was also accused in eight other carjackings and car thefts since July, Chicago police said.
On Tuesday, the teen allegedly carjacked an off-duty Chicago police officer in the 4400 block of South Oakenwald Avenue in Kenwood, police said.
He was allegedly one of four carjackers who took the woman’s purse, phone and car, police said.
He’s also charged in carjackings and car thefts in Calumet Heights, Bronzeville, Chatham and Avalon Park.
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