2024-01-22 19:53:34
A manhunt is underway for 23-year-old Romeo Nance after seven people were found shot to death in Joliet, Illinois, Monday afternoon, according to police.
CBS News reported that a fatal shooting on Sunday is also believed to be connected to shootings in two homes.
WGN-TV noted that police are referring to the shootings on Monday and Sunday as “random” incidents “in Joliet Township and the City of Joliet.”
#UPDATE: Police are searching for Romeo Nance, believed to be driving a red Toyota Camry, with license plate number Q73041, after multiple people were found dead in two homes. He is considered armed and dangerous.
The latest details: https://t.co/BNFOqeu6jb pic.twitter.com/F9cUwe4mJC
— WGN TV News (@WGNNews) January 22, 2024
ABC 7 observed that Joliet police chief Bill Evans commented on Monday’s crime scene, saying, “I’ve been a police officer for 29 years, and this is the worst crime scene I’ve ever been associated with.”
Nance is 6’2″, weighing about 160 lbs. He is believed to be driving a red Toyota Camry, license plate number Q73041.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.