The police in Joliet, Ill., were searching on Monday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of eight people, seven of whom were found dead in two homes on the same block on the city’s east side, the authorities said. The suspect, Romeo Nance, 23, was believed to be driving a red Toyota Camry, and…
The manhunt for an escaped fugitive in the Philadelphia suburbs appeared to escalate on Friday afternoon as attention focused on the area around a sprawling botanical garden where the escapee had been seen twice in recent days. The number of officers searching for Danelo Cavalcante, who escaped from the Chester County Prison on Aug. 31,…
In a news conference on Wednesday, Howard Holland, the acting warden of the prison, described for the first time how Mr. Cavalcante escaped. A little before 9 a.m., while a basketball game was going on outside in the exercise yard, he said, Mr. Cavalcante crab-walked up two parallel walls — putting his hands on one…
Officials said he had been taken into custody without incident by a team that included officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, the Texas Department of Public Safety and a tactical unit from the Border Patrol. The killings occurred late Friday. Officials said Mr. Oropesa had been firing a gun that night in his front yard…