Romeo Nance Charged With 2 Murders At His Family's House

JOLIET, IL — The Joliet Police Department announced that they will hold another press conference to update information regarding the West Acres Road shooting incident at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Council Chambers on the second floor of the Joliet City Hall at 150 W. Jefferson St. in Joliet.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday morning, Joliet Police Detective Jeff German submitted a formal criminal complaint at the Will County Courthouse, charging Romeo Nance, even though he died Monday night, with two counts of first-degree murder. The court files make it clear that the case is technically closed because of Nance's death.

The complaint indicated that Nance killed an unidentified man and a woman at one of the houses in the 2200 block of West Acres Road.

On Monday night, the Medina County Sheriff's Office in Texas announced on Facebook that it had received a call regarding a mass murder suspect from the Chicago area heading into the county on IH35 from Bexar County. Deputies assisted other Texas police agencies and the suspect, later identified as Romeo Nance, was in a standoff in Natalia, Texas, at a Chubby's Gas station.

Nance ended up sustaining self-inflicted gunshot wounds, Texas authorities announced.

Several hours earlier, Joliet police announced that Romeo Nance, who lived in the 2200 block of West Acres Road, was a murder suspect in the deaths of seven people inside two houses on West Acres Road, plus two more people who were shot late Sunday afternoon, one of which was a fatality, over at the Pheasant Run Apartments, which is in the jurisdiction of the Will County Sheriff's Office.

Joliet Patch also carried a Facebook Live video feed of the 2 p.m. press conference.