Romeo Nance, 23, is accused of killing eight people in a Jan. 21 shooting spree that officials later called a “reign of terror” over Illinois’ third-largest city.
Ayanna kneels next to flowers as family, friends, and members of the community attend a vigil after seven people were killed in two shootings on the same block in Joliet on Jan. 28, 2024. When Andre Shorter saw a TikTok about an eight-person shooting in his hometown of Joliet, he didn’t expect to recognize the suspect.
Also alive is Nance’s 3-year-old son. The boy’s mother and Nance’s girlfriend, Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton, 21, faces three charges of obstruction of justice for allegedly making false statements to officials in the wake of the shootings. He recalled Nance getting into only one physical confrontation — on a bus with other players on the way home from a game. But he insisted there was something about his teammate that made people wary of saying the wrong thing to him.
Tameaka Nance, 47, lived in house 2225. She was a nurse, and mother to Nance and his siblings Joshua, 31, Alexandria, 20, Alonnah, 16, and Angel, 14. She was protective and loving of her family, her sister said. Alonnah, a Joliet West junior, and Angel, 14, were both athletic, with the kids participating in wrestling, cheerleading and track and field. Esters described Alonnah as shy but with a sense of humor that emerged over time. Angel encouraged the people around her to do the right thing, Esters said.
A Joliet police officer talks on Jan. 23, 2024, with Nauteia Brass, of Illinois Youth and Family Services, in the 2200 block of West Acres Road in Joliet, where seven of eight people fatally shot on Jan. 21 by suspect Romeo Nance were found inside two houses. Nance told investigating officers he did not wish to be interviewed, asked for a lawyer and yelled across the hallway that the other suspect should also ask for a lawyer, according to a police report.
The casket of Joshua Nance, one of seven shooting victims of one family, is brought out after a funeral service at Victory City Church on Feb. 3, 2024, in Joliet. Suspect Romeo Nance fatally shot seven members of his family and two others, one fatally, on Jan. 21 in Joliet before killing himself in Texas the following day.
Prosecutors charged Nance with aggravated discharge of a firearm, aggravated assault, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and reckless discharge of a firearm, court documents show. Subsequent body camera footage shows Nance pleading with officers to remove his ankle cuffs and asking the officer who’s driving him to the police station about the equipment in the squad car, particularly a license plate reader.
Joliet police have not found a record of Nance holding a valid firearm owner’s identification card, a spokesperson said. Nance bonded out of jail in March 2023, according to records. His girlfriend posted the bail and listed herself as his sister on the form.Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton and Nance were parents to a 3-year-old boy. The couple lived together in Colorado for a time. At the time of the Jan. 21 shootings, they were living with Nance’s family in Joliet, court records show.
“I didn’t know if Kyleigh was there, was Kyleigh gone, where the baby,” she said. “My heart just went down to my feet.” She wants to know how her granddaughter is going to get her things out of the house on West Acres Road.Cleveland-Singleton faces three charges of obstruction of justice for her statements to officials shortly after the shootings. A grand jury indictment claims that she denied knowing Nance’s phone number and lied to investigators about when she last spoke to Nance.
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