Authorities in a suburb of Chicago, in the northern United States, are searching Monday, January 22, for a young man suspected of being involved in the deaths of seven people found in two nearby homes.
On Monday,
“a total of seven people were found, shot to death,”
said Bill Evans, police chief in the city of Joliet, southwest of Chicago, during a press conference broadcast by television. American.
“We are looking for a suspect named Romeo Nance”
, 23, living in the immediate vicinity of the two houses where the bodies were found, added the police officer.
His services released images of a car and its license plate which the authorities are looking for.
It is the same vehicle that is wanted for other crimes on Sunday, when a man was killed and another seriously injured by gunfire in the same town of Joliet.
The United States is paying a very heavy price for the spread of firearms on its territory and the ease with which Americans have access to them.
The country has more individual weapons than inhabitants: one adult in three owns at least one weapon and nearly one adult in two lives in a home where there is a weapon.
The consequence of this proliferation is the very high rate of firearm deaths in the United States, incomparable to that of other developed countries.