Man suspected of killing eight people ‘related to most of the victims’

Police in Joliet after multiple people were shot and killed over two days at three locations in the Chicago suburbs (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago was related to most of the victims, authorities have said.

It comes a day after the 23-year-old shot himself dead after a confrontation with law enforcement in Texas.