Daywatch: Suspect wanted in fatal shooting of 8 in Joliet found dead in Texas
Good morning, Chicago.
A man wanted in the fatal shootings of eight people in the Joliet area was found dead Monday night by U.S. Marshals in Texas after he took his own life, according to the Joliet Police Department.
Medina County Sheriff officials received a call that Romeo Nance was heading into their county, according to a post on their social media page around 10 p.m. After a standoff at Chubby’s gas station in Natalia, Nance sustained “self inflicted gunshot wounds,” officials wrote in the post. He died around 8:30 p.m., Joliet police said.
Law enforcement officials had launched a manhunt Monday for Nance, 23, after eight people were killed at three locations in the Joliet area since Sunday.
“I’ve been a policeman 29 years and this is probably the worst crime scene I’ve ever been associated with,” Joliet police Chief Williams Evans said at a news conference Monday night, before Nance was found.
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