CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 61-year-woman shot in an Evanston IHOP parking lot near the end of a shooting spree last weekend has died, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Marta Torres, 61, died at 6 p.m. Saturday at St. Francis Hospital. She is the fourth person killed by in a crime spree police say was committed by gunman Jason Nightengale, 32.
Police said Nightengale shot seven people in Chicago and Evanston before he was killed by Evanston police officers Jan. 9. The current conditions of the other three people wounded could not be confirmed Sunday.
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Chicago police officers said the spree began with Nightengale fatally shooting a 30-year-old man in a parking garage in the 5000 block of East End. The University of Chicago later identified that man as Ph.D. student Yiran Fan.
About 5:45 p.m., Evanston police responded to shots fired at the Evanston IHOP where Torres was held hostage and then shot by Nightengale, police said. Nightengale then ran out of the restaurant and got in a shootout with Evanston officers in a nearby Dollar General parking lot, where he was killed.
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