Romeo Nance, who is suspected of killing eight people in suburban Chicago, fatally shot himself after a confrontation with Texas law enforcement officials, police officials said on Monday (local time). Chicago’s Joliet police officials said that US Marshals near Natalia, Texas located Romeo Nance and after a confrontation with them he shot himself.
Texas’s Medina County Sheriff’s Office in a Facebook post announced that they received a call about a person suspected in the Chicago killings heading into the county on Interstate 35. A standoff occurred between Nance and cops from multiple agencies at a gas station, where Nance shot himself, the sheriff’s office told the Associated Press.
Who Is Romeo Nance
The 23-year-old man is suspected of shooting and killing eight people at three locations in the Chicago suburbs. His manhunt concerned citizens in Joliet as police earlier said he was still on the loose.
Cops in Will County in Illinois and the city of Joliet previously said they did not know why Nance killed the victims but highlighted that he knew them. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) fugitive task force was assisting the local police in the search for Nance.
The cops found the victims on Sunday and Monday at three separate residences. They earlier sent out a warning on Joliet city’s social media channels saying that Nance should be considered “armed and dangerous.”
One of the people killed was found Sunday in a home in Will County. Seven others were found Monday at two homes on the same block in Joliet, located about 9.6 kilometres northwest of the scene police discovered first.
Authorities said they also believe another shooting in Joliet that wounded a man on Sunday is connected to the string of violence but would not discuss their evidence.
“I’ve been a policeman 29 years and this is probably the worst crime scene I’ve ever been associated with,” Evans said during a news conference outside the Joliet homes Monday evening, according to a report by the Associated Press.
Police earlier in a Facebook post said they were probing the deaths of multiple people found dead and shared Nance’s photo and images of a vehicle. The vehicle was identified as a red Toyota Camry. The car was seen at the scenes of two separate shootings Sunday afternoon.
“This is way too close to home. I keep looking out the window and double checking my doors. It’s super scary,” Teresa Smart, one of the neighbours, told the news agency. She lives a block away from where seven of the victims were found. Smart said she is worried that she and her family were not able to sleep on Monday night.
Cops said they do not have any idea regarding how long the people inside the houses were dead and said autopsies are pending.
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