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A woman who lived for years with him suspect in the murder of 4 members of a family in a suburb near Chicago, Illinois, described it as a “very dangerous and a great manipulator” man.
Cristiana Espinoza, 25, of Streamwood, Illinois, said Wednesday that lived for a long time with suspect Nathaniel Huey Jr., 32because his mother dated him for at least eight years.
Espinoza’s address was listed in a public database as the same address where Huey lived.
Huey and a woman, who turned out to be Espinoza’s mother, had been called “persons of interest” by the authorities, after they began investigations into the death of the family and their three dogs in Romeoville.
On Wednesday, a license plate reader spotted a car linked to the man in Catoosa, Oklahoma, outside of Tulsa. When officers allegedly attempted to pull him over, the driver tried to speed away, which caused the car to crash and crash.
The officers They found a woman seriously injured inside the vehicle and the man shot to death in the driver’s seatBurne added.
Espinoza declined to identify his mother by name, but said that The 50-year-old woman was in the vehicle found on the interstate in Oklahoma.
“He is a very dangerous man. He is a great manipulator. “A great manipulator”Espinoza said of Huey.
“When I met him he wasn’t such a bad guy. A couple of months ago, something changed. He was excluding us all, including my mom, and now this. She became suspicious… to be left alone, staying in the garage. “He started not being himself and he pushed us all away, even my mom,” he said according to NBC News.
Espinoza’s sister, who did not want to be identified, said Huey had betrayed her family, but refused to say how. He stated that he was a “very angry man,” manipulative, and that his mother “was afraid of him.”
“Huey is someone I thought I could trust. And in the last few months he distanced himself from us and it turned out that we couldn’t trust him,” she noted.
Huey owned a security company, had access to multiple weapons and last worked in a machinery warehouse, Espinoza said.
Police have been searching for a suspect in the deaths of a family of four that shook the suburb about 35 miles southwest of Chicago.
Alberto Rolón, 38; Zoraida Bartolomé, 32; Her two sons, ages 7 and 9, and her three dogs were found murdered in their Romeoville home Sunday night.
Romeoville Deputy Chief Chris Burne said Wednesday that evidence pointed to a connection between the suspect and the victims, as well as a possible motive, but he declined to elaborate.
Although the man found dead was identified as a suspect, Burne clarified that this remains an active and evolving investigation. “This part of the incident is still developing,” he said in a statement.
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