Posted on 01/22/2024 5:35:12 PM PST by Red Badger
JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) -- Seven people were found shot and killed in two different homes in Joliet Monday afternoon, and a manhunt has been launched for a suspect, police said.
Police also believe a fatal shooting on Sunday is connected with the mass-casualty incident.
At a news conference, Joliet police Chief Bill Evans said at 12:04 p.m., Joliet police were notified by the Will County Sheriff's office 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.
Police said the houses where the bodies were found are across the street from each other.
The scene is just a few blocks from the busy intersection of Jefferson Street and Larkin Avenue – and also right near Ascension St. Joseph Hospital and Joliet West High School.
Joliet police said they are looking for Romeo Nance, who is believed to be driving a red Toyota Camry with Illinois license plate Q730412. Evans said Nance is 23, and stands 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds.
Nance's last known address was on the same block of Acres Road, Evans said.
Evans said Nance knew the victims found in the two houses, and it is believed they are all related.
Meanwhile, a red Toyota Camry with the same license plate as the one referenced in connection with the Monday discovery was also identified as being involved in two shootings on Sunday – one of which left a man dead.
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. 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.
About 10 minutes earlier, a 42-year-old man had been shot in the leg in the 200 block of Davis Street in Joliet. That victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
The Will County Sheriff's office said these earlier incidents appeared random – and the two victims were not connected. However, according to the sheriff's office, the same car with the same license plate associated with Nance was spotted at both scenes.
Will County Sheriff's Deputy Chief Dan Jungles said detectives had been investigating the shooting since it happened – and had set up a surveillance area on Acres Road, where the registered owner of the car lived.
Deputies walked to a house and knocked on the door, Jungles said. When they received no response, they knew the people who lived in a house across the street were related to those living in the first house, Jungles said.
Upon going to the house across the street, the deputies found blood. They entered the house to look for injured people.
Ultimately, five people were found dead in one house, two in the other, Jungles said.
"I've been a policeman 25 years," Evans said. "This is probably the worst crime scene I've ever been associated with."
Police are working on the theory that the crimes Sunday and Monday are all connected.
Nance's prior arrest records indicated that he also listed an address on Acres Road as his home address when he was arrested for aggravated discharge of a weapon involving a woman. Court records indicate Nance was out on bond in connection with that 2023 shooting case and is still awaiting trial.
Several distraught neighbors said they were disturbed by the violence – and what appeared to be the strange and random nature of the crimes.
"It's frightening that this is so close to home. I literally live like probably four houses down, and I have a young daughter, and it's crazy," said Laura Bane. "This is a neighborhood – there's a park right down the street. It's crazy that there's young kids – they get off the bus right here."
"Driving out around here, and seeing all the cops, and seeing everything going down, and just living right down the street is kind of scary," another woman said. "It's like you're not even good in your own home."
Several emotional people showed up at the Acres Road scene Monday evening.
Police said Nance should be considered armed and dangerous. Anyone who sees Nance should call the police immediately.
The killings were mostly peaceful.
But it’s 2024. The Penguin was handcuffed and put in a patrol car after a complaint she tried to set up a Latin Mass and made critical comments about the Pope condoning blessings to gay couples holding hands. Undercover FBI agents ratted her out.
Good one.
I feel so much better now.
I had not heard that.
I wondered why the commie didn’t cover this story but now showing the pic of the perp makes sense
Aspiring rap artist
>> Evans said Nance is 23, and stands 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds.
Wow, that describes a lot of people! Chief Nance, is there ANYTHING AT ALL that you can tell us that might help us identify the perp? Perhaps a simple easily discernable characteristic that would rule out, say, 86% of all individuals in America?
Now reportedly dead at a gas station in Natalia TX.
Self inflicted or LEO inflicted?...................
Big mistake going to Texas
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/multiple-people-found-shot-dead-joliet/
Suspect dead in Texas after 8 people are killed at 3 locations in Joliet, Illinois
I saw it on the 10:00 news and was busy cooking so I couldn’t look up a source. Thanks.
Around 8:30 p.m., Joliet police learned Nance had been spotted by U.S. Marshals in Natalia, Texas – 30 miles southwest of San Antonio. Natalia, Texas is 1,200 miles away from Joliet – more than an 18-hour drive. Joliet police said Nance was found in a car at a Valero gas station.
It is believed that Nance died by suicide with a handgun after a confrontation with Texas law enforcement, according to Joliet police.
I wonder how he got here that quick.
Self-inflicted after being cornered by cops, apparently. Sort of anticlimactic, given the 1200 mile drive from the murder scene.
And if that wasn’t bad enough, over in Tinley Park...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0YPilpJru4
(Appears these were Arab-Americans)
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