Mass Shooting In Illinois Ends In Suicide In Texas - Gains Nearly No Attention In The Media

Our 'betters' in the legacy media never hesitate to jump on a shooting, so it was odd to this writer when she encountered a story from The Associated Press about a mass shooting in Chicago that garnered basically no national attention whatsoever from the MSM. Nothing like what we typically see with shootings of this sort. Between Sunday and Monday (January 21st and 22nd), a 23-year-old man named Romeo Nance, the alleged suspect, shot and killed 8 people. Police report that the victims were all related to Nance. A ninth person was wounded. The victims were found Sunday and Monday at three separate homes. Man suspected of killing 8 people outside Chicago was related to most of the victims, police say. Now, normally a shooting that took the lives of eight people would be on every major network, and our elected 'leaders' would never let us hear the end of it. So why is this shooting different?

Wait. What? Mass shootings are back burner news now? The Associated Press has also very subtly shifted the terms here, using 'mass killing' rather than 'mass shooting'. However, since there is no one set definition of 'mass shooting', it's not entirely incorrect. The AP has compiled a database, along with USA Today in a partnership with Northeastern University and defines a mass killing as 'an attack in which four or more people have died, not including the perpetrator, within a 24-hour period.' These types of shootings make up vast majority of "mass shootings". They don't make national news for obvious reasons. This brings up an excellent point. 'Roughly 12 percent of mass killings are mass public shootings (incidents that occur in the absence of other criminal activity such as robberies, drug deals, and gang-related turf wars) in which a gun is used to kill four or more victims at a public location.

Most mass killings are familicides (murders of family members or intimate partners) and felony-related killings (such as robberies gone awry or gang-related “turf battles”).' https://www.heritage.org/firearms/commentary/6-reasons-gun-control-will-not-solve-mass-killings -- This slight distinction is likely why these types of mass shootings are not treated the same way as instances such as Columbine or Las Vegas, and yet they are counted in the statistics regarding mass shootings. This is intentionally deceptive and misleading in a deliberate effort to make mass public shootings seem far more common than they actually are.

A killing that involves four or more victims in more than one location in a relatively short period of time are typically classified as spree killings, but we're getting off into the weeds now. Nance fled Illinois after the murders and was discovered by authorities in Texas. He was confronted and surrounded at a gas station where he ended his own life. No motive has been uncovered as of this writing. Nance also had a criminal record and was out on bond for allegedly shooting at a car with a woman inside last year. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/joliet-murders-romeo-nance-suspect-found-dead-texas/

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