21-year-old girlfriend of man accused of killing 7 relatives and another remains on home detention after pleading not guilty to obstructing investigation
Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton, aged 21, firmly entered a plea of not guilty on Thursday to an obstruction of justice charge at a courtroom in Wills County, Illinois. The charge follows the events of last month when her boyfriend, Romeo Nance, allegedly shot and killed, seven relatives and an additional individual in Joliet, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.
Authorities assert that Cleveland-Singleton deliberately misled investigators during their pursuit of Nance, providing false information crucial to the investigation. Nance, 23, purportedly carried out the fatal shootings before escaping to Texas, where he ultimately took his own life as law enforcement officers closed in on him.
The specific obstruction charge against Cleveland-Singleton centers on her alleged withholding of Nance’s contact information from authorities, despite the fact that the two share a child together.