Suspect in 8 Killings is Captured

Police believe an ex-convict killed eight people in two states and was the subject of a multistate manhunt. Authorities caught him on Tuesday evening in southwestern Illinois. Nicholas T. Sheley, age 28, was caught in Granite City, about 10 miles north of St. Louis. He is in the custody of the Granite City Police Department. The FBI warned he should be considered armed and dangerous. So far he has only been charged in the death of one of the eight but he faces charges of first degree murder, aggravated battery and vehicular hijacking in the death of Ronald Randall. His body was found behind a grocery store in Galesburg, Illinois and the autopsy showed the 65 year old man died from blunt force trauma to the head.