A man suspected of fatally shooting eight people over two days in suburban Chicago turned the gun on himself when confronted by law enforcement officers in Texas Monday night.
Romeo Nance, 23, shot and killed himself around 8:30 p.m. Central time after US Marshals near Natalia, Texas confronted him, Joliet, Illinois police said.
It’s unclear how Nance got from Illinois to Texas with local police and the FBI’s fugitive task force monitoring.
He is accused of killing eight people in three separate scenes discovered on Sunday and Monday, terrifying residents in the Chicago suburb of Joliet as police launched an hours-long manhunt for a killer they say should be considered “armed and dangerous.”
But police insisted that the victim and the dead suspect knew each other, although they did not reveal a motive for the shooting.
The victim was found Sunday and Monday in three separate locations. Joliet Police Department
The first victim, identified as 28-year-old Toyosi Bakare, was shot in the head inside a private home in Will County on Sunday, Will County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Jungles said.
The Nigerian was rushed to hospital but succumbed to his injuries.
Police identified Nance as a suspect in the shooting and went to his last known address and a house across the street, where they found gruesome scenes at both.
A man shot and killed eight people at three locations since Sunday in suburban Chicago and remains at large. AP Romeo Nance, wanted by the Joliet Police Department as a suspect in the shooting deaths of seven people at two homes. Reuters
Police found two bodies in one house and five in another on Monday. Some of the victims – who have not been named – were relatives, police said.
They would not confirm or deny if Nance was related to any of the victims.
It is not clear how long the seven victims have been dead but the medical examiner will perform autopsies to determine that and the cause of their deaths.
Authorities said they also believe another shooting in Joliet that injured a man on Sunday is connected to the string of violence. Joliet Police Department
“I’ve been a police officer for 29 years and this is probably the worst crime I’ve ever been involved with,” Joliet Police Chief William Evans said during a press conference outside his Joliet home Monday afternoon.
Investigators also believe Nance could be responsible for another shooting on Sunday — in which a 42-year-old victim survived a gunshot wound to the leg, NBC 5 Chicago reported.
With Postal wire
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