The search for the suspect in a string of murders in the Joliet area ended Monday night, after Romeo Nance, 23, took his own life during a confrontation with Texas police, authorities said.
Nance died nearly 1,200 miles from where the murders took place, according to officials.
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He had traveled to the city of Natalia, Texas after the killings, southwest of San Antonio.
Many questions remain Tuesday morning, including a possible motive and the reason for Nance’s travel across the country.
Officials said there was a confrontation in Texas during which Nance shot himself.
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Nance was wanted for shooting nine people, eight fatally, across four separate crime scenes in the suburbs earlier this week.
Nance lived in one of the two homes on West Acres Road where seven bodies were found Monday afternoon.
Joliet police said earlier Monday, they responded to the 2200-block of West Acres Road and found two people dead in one home and five more dead in another home. Their names, genders and ages have not been released.