On this body seize from video supplied by WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago, authorities work a scene in Joliet, In poor health., on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, after discovering eight individuals shot and killed at three places since Sunday within the Chicago suburbs.
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On this body seize from video supplied by WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago, authorities work a scene in Joliet, In poor health., on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, after discovering eight individuals shot and killed at three places since Sunday within the Chicago suburbs.
WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago/by way of AP
CHICAGO — A person suspected of capturing and killing eight individuals in suburban Chicago fatally shot himself after a confrontation with legislation enforcement officers in Texas, police mentioned late Monday.
Police in Joliet, Illinois, mentioned on Fb that at about 8:30 p.m. Central time 23-year-old Romeo Nance was situated by U.S. Marshals close to Natalia, Texas, and that Nance shot himself after a confrontation.
The Medina County Sheriff’s Workplace in Texas mentioned on Fb that the company acquired a name about an individual suspected within the Chicago killings heading into the county on Interstate 35. A standoff then occurred between Nance and police from a number of businesses at a fuel station, the place Nance shot himself, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Nance is suspected of fatally capturing eight individuals at three places within the Chicago suburbs, sparking a search that left neighbors on edge earlier Monday as police warned he was nonetheless on the unfastened and must be thought-about ”armed and harmful.”
Police in Will County in Illinois and Joliet beforehand mentioned they didn’t know of a motive for the killings, however mentioned Nance knew the victims. The FBI’s fugitive job pressure had been helping native police within the seek for the suspect, Joliet Police Chief William Evans mentioned.
The victims had been discovered Sunday and Monday at three separate residences, authorities instructed reporters at a information convention earlier Monday night.
One of many individuals killed was discovered Sunday in a house in Will County. Seven others had been discovered Monday at two properties on the identical block in Joliet, situated about about 6 miles northwest of the scene police found first.
Authorities mentioned additionally they consider Nance was related to a different capturing in Joliet that wounded a person on Sunday however wouldn’t focus on their proof.
”I have been a policeman 29 years and that is most likely the worst crime scene I’ve ever been related to,” Evans mentioned throughout a information convention outdoors the Joliet properties Monday night.
Will County Chief Deputy Dan Jungles mentioned through the Monday information convention that deputies had been staking out one of many homes since Sunday night in case Nance, the suspect within the first deadly capturing they found, returned to them. Nance’s final recognized handle was one of many properties, police mentioned.
When nobody confirmed, deputies lastly went to the door of one of many homes. Nobody answered so that they crossed the road to the opposite home, which they knew was linked to the primary home and located the primary our bodies. 5 our bodies had been present in one home and two our bodies had been discovered within the different.
Jungles mentioned he did not have any indication but of how lengthy the individuals within the homes had been lifeless. He mentioned that autopsies had been pending.
Evans mentioned the victims discovered Monday within the homes had been relations. Requested if the victims had been members of the suspect’s household, Jungles mentioned he could not remark besides to say that the suspect knew them.
Teresa Sensible lives a few block away from the place seven of the victims had been discovered and had mentioned she was nervous she and her household would not be capable of sleep Monday evening.
”That is approach too near dwelling,” she mentioned, including that police automobiles had been blocking streets all through the neighborhood.
”I hold looking the window and double checking my doorways,” she mentioned. ”It is tremendous scary.”
Joliet Police mentioned in a Fb submit earlier on Monday afternoon that they had been investigating ”a number of” individuals discovered lifeless and shared Nance’s picture and photographs of a automobile. Authorities recognized the automobile as a pink Toyota Camry.
Earlier Monday, the Will County Sheriff’s Workplace shared photographs of the identical automobile by way of Fb and mentioned it had been seen on the scenes of two separate shootings Sunday afternoon.