The girlfriend of a man suspected of fatally shooting seven relatives and an eighth person last month in a Chicago suburb is pleading not guilty to an obstruction of justice charge. Twenty-one-year-old Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton of Joliet entered the plea Thursday in a Will County court. She is on home confinement. Prosecutors say she provided false information to authorities during their investigation and the search for her boyfriend, Romeo Nance. Police say Nance shot and killed seven members of his family and another man before fleeing to Texas, where he shot and killed himself as U.S. Marshalls closed in on him.
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Kyleigh Cleveland-Singleton, 21, of Joliet entered the plea in a Will County court. Prosecutors say she provided false information to authorities during their investigation and search for her boyfriend, Romeo Nance, 23. Joliet police said Cleveland-Singleton agreed to be questioned by police Jan. 22 after she was identified as Nance's girlfriend and the mother of his 3-year-old son.
As Romeo Nance was cuffed around the wrists and ankles, a woman, apparently his mother, screamed at officers to stop. A year later, she would be one of Nance’s victims in last month’s mass shooting, according to police.
A line stretched outside Victory City Church for a celebration of life for the slain Esters and Nance family relatives, whose remains were carried in seven white caskets adorned with purple, pink, white and green flowers.