Suspect in 8 Chicago-area slayings turns up dead in Texas

Romeo Nance, sought by the Joliet Police Department as a suspect in the shooting deaths of seven people in two homes, poses in an undated photograph released by investigators in Joliet, Illinois, U.S. Joliet Police Department/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) -A man suspected of shooting eight people to death and wounding another in suburban Chicago has turned up dead hundreds of miles away in Texas, where he apparently took his own life after an encounter with law enforcement there, police said on Monday.

The death of 23-year-old Romeo Nance near the town of Natalia, Texas, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of San Antonio, ended a manhunt that began with the slaying of one man and the wounding of another in two Chicago-area shootings on Sunday, police said.