4 Joliet Homicide Suspects Captured, Rockdale Man Dead

JOLIET, IL — Four people have been captured in connection with Tuesday night's fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man on Joliet's southeast side, the Joliet Police Department announced Wednesday. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, the Will County Coroner's Office announced that 20-year-old Rockdale resident Todd Taylor died of multiple gunshot wounds.

At 8:59 p.m., city police officers heard gunshots in the area of 5th Avenue and Sherman Street and saw a black Cadillac SUV fleeing the area. The SUV refused to pull over near 4th Avenue and Richards Street and headed westbound on Interstate 80, police said.

During the initial pursuit of the Cadillac SUV, Joliet police say they learned of the slaying of the Rockdale man in a driveway in the 300 block of Grant Avenue.

Officers pursued the Cadillac SUV on westbound Interstate 80, to southbound Interstate 55, to the area of West Coal City Road in Diamond where police say the SUV stopped.

At that point, several people in the vehicle tried running away, police said. Two were quickly captured and a perimeter was established with the help of other area police agencies. Two more shooting suspects were captured around 1:35 a.m. Wednesday in the 2500 block of East Stellon Street in Diamond, police said.

The Will County Coroner's Office is expected to release the victim's name later on Wednesday.

The Grant Avenue slaying happened less than five hours after dozens of officers from the Joliet Police Department responded to a gunshot homicide in the 700 block of Francis Street.

Also Tuesday night, the Will County Sheriff's Office responded to two separate gunshot incidents that left three people wounded, including one person critically. Those two shootings happened on Joliet's east side on Washington Street and also on Nobles Avenue.