Jan. 23 (UPI) — Authorities in the Chicago suburb of Joliet late Monday said a suspect they were searching for in connection to the fatal shooting of eight people has died from a self-inflicted gunshot in Texas.
Romeo Nance, 23, died by suicide following a confrontation with U.S. Marshals near Natalia, Texas, which is located about 30 miles southwest of San Antonio near the U.S.-Mexico border and more than a 1,000 miles southwest of Joliet where he is accused of killing at least seven people, possibly eight.
The Joliet Police Department said in a statement that it was notified of Nance’s death at about 8:30 p.m.
“It is believed that Nance took his own life with a handgun following a confrontation with Texas law enforcement officials,” it said.
Police had been searching for Nance since earlier Monday when seven bodies were found in two homes on the same Joliet street.
Authorities told reporters during a press conference that the seven bodies were found by the Will County Sheriff’s Office as it was investigating a homicide that happened a day earlier.