8 People Shot Dead at Three Locations in Chicago
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Chicago – Eight people were found shot and killed in three different locations over two days in Joliet, and the suspect in the slayings was also found dead by a suspected suicide 1,200 miles away Monday night, police said.
The apparent self-inflicted gunshot death of 23-year-old Romeo Nance in Texas followed a manhunt by multiple law enforcement agencies.
At a news conference, Joliet Police Chief Bill Evans said his officers were notified by the Will County Sheriff's office at 12:04 p.m. local time on Monday about several people found dead in two separate houses in the 2200 block of West Acres Road near Madison Street.
Responding officers found a total of seven people in two houses who had all been shot dead, Evans said.
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Joliet police said immediately after announcing the Monday shooting deaths that they were looking for Nance. He was believed to have been driving a red Toyota Camry, Nance's last known address had been on the same block of Acres Road, Evans said. Evans said Nance knew the victims found in the two houses, and it was believed they were all related.
Will County Sheriff's deputies had discovered the bodies as they investigated an earlier shooting, which had left a man dead in an unincorporated area just outside Joliet proper the day before. The common link was the red Toyota Camry associated with Nance.
At 4:27 p.m. Sunday, the Will County Sheriff's office was called to the Pheasant Run Apartments, off Pheasant Run Road in unincorporated Joliet Township, where they found a man bleeding on the ground from a gunshot wound.Â
The 28-year-old man, who was originally from Nigeria and had lived in the United States for about three years, was rushed to an area hospital and died.
The Will County Coroner's office identified this victim as Toyosi I. Bakare, 28, of Joliet.
