
“We are responding to the scene as these crimes are happening, getting information, and again, he’s going to the next while we are trying to keep up with what’s happened previously.”Īn earlier version of this story was corrected to reflect that police said the woman at the IHOP was shot in the neck, not the head.

“When you hear this whole story, it seems that you have a crystal ball of what he’s doing next, and we all know we don’t have a crystal ball where he goes next nor do we have this on any of our POD cameras,” Brown said. He said investigators had very little information about Nightengale but plan to release more details as they get them. Nightengale left the restaurant and was confronted by officers in a parking lot, leading to a shootout in which he was shot and killed, Cook said.īrown said the information he shared at the news conference was preliminary and could change. She was in critical condition, Evanston police Chief Demitrous Cook told reporters. The spree that ended in Evanston began, authorities say, when Nightengale, 32, of Chicago, fatally shot Yiran Fan in the head as the 30-year-old University of Chicago graduate student sat in a car. He then went across the street to an IHOP restaurant, where he shot a woman in the neck.

Nightengale had apparently walked into the pharmacy, announced that he was robbing it and fired off shots that didn’t hit anyone, authorities said. Moving to Chicago in 1975, he began his career as an actor, appearing in several Chicago theater productions including the Stephen Schwartz musical Godspell. Jason Nightingale (born 20 September 1986) is a former New Zealand international rugby league footballer who played as a winger and fullback for the St.

Nightengale then drove about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north to Evanston, which borders Chicago, where police responded to a report of shots that had been fired inside a CVS.
