Romeo Nance, a 23-year-old man, emerged as a central figure in a harrowing series of events that unfolded in the Chicago suburb of Joliet, Illinois.
Illinois mass shooting: Romeo Nance takes his life after killing eight victims
Nance, accused of fatally shooting eight people, met a tragic end with a self-inflicted gunshot in Texas, following a confrontation with US Marshals near Natalia, Texas.
The chain of violence attributed to Nance began with multiple fatalities in Joliet.
According to reports, authorities discovered seven bodies in two homes on the same street, unravelling a grisly scene that shook the community to its core.
These findings were part of an investigation into a homicide that happened just a day earlier, involving Toyois Bakare, a 28-year-old Nigerian national who succumbed to a gunshot wound.
The Joliet Police Department, piecing together the timeline, linked Nance to these killings, citing that he knew the victims and that they were related.
The horror of these events was further compounded by the revelation that Nance’s last known address was one of the homes where the victims were found.
In 2023, the United States witnessed a record number of mass shootings, with a tragic toll of 754 people killed and 2,443 injured in 604 shootings.
Among the most notable incidents of 2023 were shootings in Half Moon Bay, California, where 11 people were killed in a predominantly Asian-American area, and another incident in nearby Monterey Bay, California, that claimed seven lives.