An accused serial killer is said to have shot six random strangers in Chicago when he was only 17 – with the police who admitted that there might have been more.
Antonio Reyes was already in custody for a 2020 murder when prosecutors announced five extra murder attacks on Thursday – as well as four attempted murders, including three children from 3 to 9 years.
“None of these people had previously met Antonio Reyes, and there is no reason to suspect that Antonio Reyes had some reason to focus,” said Cook Cook County Eileen O’Neill Burke reporters during a press conference, According to USA Today.
“A victim was killed when he went to the gas station to buy a doll. … Another victim was in a parked car with a friend on Palm Sunday afternoon. … The only crime of another victim was that one afternoon his family had to buy a new puppy, “she said.
The allegations against Reyes, 21, are for a murderous spree for nine months in 2020 on the southwest side of the Windy City.
The victims of the murder were all between the ages of 16 and 31.
“These were six lives that were brutally taken,” said Larry Snelling of the Chicago police.
“It’s hard to understand how someone can easily take someone’s life and especially so much in one year. … for who knows how much he may have been responsible? “
Reyes has been in police detention since 2021 for the murder of Luis Davalos, who was shot in the head in June 2020, According to the Chicago Sun Times.
The attempted murder attacks include the three children of one of the victims who was shot dead with the children in his car.
Since his arrest, Reyes has also been accused of killing his cell mate with a shaft, and those charges are awaiting, prosecutors, prosecutors, NBC reported.
He is held without bail.
