A manhunt has ended after the suspect in a deadly Kenney shooting was found dead in Macon County.
At 9 pm Monday, DeWitt County CenCom got a call from an individual stating they believed they had located the vehicle driven by Munoz near a wind tower in Macon County just South of the DeWitt/Macon County line. DeWitt County Deputies responded to the location along with Macon County deputies. Deputies located the white Honda Accord with Illinois registration DT50632. Munoz was in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. Police said he was dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
On Sunday, law enforcement was called to a home on Kenney Road just after 3 p.m. The DeWitt County Sheriff’s Office said Jose De Jesus Gomez Munoz shot and killed his father-in-law and also shot his 21-year-old son.
DeWitt County Coroner Randy Rice identified the man who was killed as John Wesley “Wes” Anderson, 78, of Kenney. Munoz’s son sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to the hospital in Clinton and then transported to Carle Hospital in Champaign, where he remains in stable condition.