2 Teenage Girls Among 7 Joliet Homicide Victims: Coroner

JOLIET, IL — Will County Coroner Laurie Summers has announced the names of five of the seven gunshot victims from Sunday afternoon's killing spree in the 2200 block of West Acres Road on Joliet's west side.

The homicide victims are:

• Christine Esters, age 38, of Joliet
• Tamaeka Nance, 47, of Joliet
• William Esters II, age 35, of Joliet
• Joshua Nance, 31, of Joliet
• Alexandria Nance, 20,

The other two victims were minors: a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl, according to the coroner.

Summers often does not release the names of victims who are minors, even though their names are still a matter of public record in Illinois.

Summers announced that all seven people who died in the 2200 block of West Acres were victims of an apparent homicide.

On Monday night, the mass murder suspect and relative of the victims, Romeo Nance, fatally shot himself as a Texas fugitive task force chased him down to a gas station off Interstate 35 in Natalia, Texas. Nance had lived at both of the houses on West Acres Road in recent years, according to his extensive criminal history at the Will County Courthouse.

According to police, an eighth victim tied to the killing spree was killed at a different location in Joliet Township Sunday afternoon. Toyosi Bakare, 28, was fatally shot outside the Pheasant Run apartments and died at an area hospital. A 42-year-old man was shot and wounded in the leg on Davis Street in a crime that police also believe is connected to Romeo Nance.

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