A man suspected of shooting to death eight people and wounding another in the suburbs of Chicago, United States, has been found dead hundreds of kilometers away, in Texas, where he apparently took his own life after an encounter with security forces. warrant, police said Monday.
The death of 23-year-old Romeo Nance near the Texas town of Natalia, about 35 miles southwest of San Antonio, ended a manhunt that began Sunday with the killing of a man and the wounding of another in two shootings in the Chicago area, according to police.
The search for a suspect in Sunday’s shootings led police to discover two more crime scenes Monday in the city of Joliet, Illinois, where seven members of the same family were found shot to death in two homes across the street. the other. There was no immediate word on a possible motive for the shootings, but police in Joliet, a city about 35 miles southwest of Chicago, said investigators believed Nance knew the seven people killed at the two homes there. .
The Joliet Police Department said it learned late Monday that the U.S. Marshals Service had located Nance about 1,200 miles away in south-central Texas near Natalia, “at which time “Nance is believed to have taken his own life with a gun after a confrontation with Texas law enforcement.”
No further details were provided and the circumstances and sequence of events surrounding the killings in Illinois remained equally vague on Monday night.
