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When Andre Shorter saw a TikTok about an eight-person shooting in his hometown of Joliet, Illinois, he didn’t expect to recognize the suspect. “Usually you don’t see anything for Joliet on TikTok,” said Shorter, 22. “And then I saw Romeo’s face and was like, ‘What the … oh my God, Romeo?’” Romeo Nance, 23, is accused of killing eight people in a Jan. 21 shooting spree that officials later called a “reign of terror” over Illinois’ third-largest city. He died the next day of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff with U.S. marshals in Texas. Will County officials identified seven of th…