Chicago – When the police leaders of Chicago and the lawyer of the state of Eileen O’Neill Burke announced on Wednesday against a suspected serial killer on Wednesday, they did not talked about the background of the accused.
Asked about the criminal background of 21-year-old Antonio Reyes, said CPD head of detectives Antoinette Ursitti that she was “limited” in what they could say, because the Studies Act does not prohibit officials who reveal Juvenile criminal registers.
That law does not apply to us, so we will now answer the question from that reporter.
In December 2019, Reyes was given three years of probation in the juvenile court for worsened theft and a heavy battery. Between March 2020 and November 2020, while allegedly killing six people and tried to kill four others, he picked up four more juvenile things: armed Robbery, agravated assault with a deadly weapon, illegal weapon, unlawful use of a weapon, and a narcotics.
Public Prosecutors revealed that information when they sued Reyes of his first murder and attempted murder cases in December 2020. Our reporter took notes.
The first two cases, Reyes earned a place in our “not terrible” reporting series, a collection of reports about people accused of murder and attempted murder during the pretial release for crimes.
We called it “not terrible” because Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans stated in November 2019 that there had been no “terrible incidents” under his affordable bail system.
During the December 2020 hearing, the lawyer of the Assistant State of Kevin Deboni said that Reyes shot the 26-year-old Davalos Garcia while Garcia was waiting for his girlfriend to come out of her house on 24 June 2020 in the 5800 block of South Rockwell.
About four hours after the murder of Garcia, a car that was similar to that by its murderer, involved in another shooting, but both victims survived in that case. Researchers followed a temporary license plate on the car to a car body shop that sold the vehicle four days before the murder to Reyes’ child’s mother, Deboni said. From today, Reyes is still not charged with the second shooting of that day.
During the same hearing, Reyes was accused of another crime. On November 26, 2020, a 27-year-old man saw two men in a jeep staring at him while looking at apartments on a pole near 58th Street and Central Park. Minutes later the man was shot by someone who shot from the Jeep, Deboni said. The shooter wore a surgical mask, but the victim was later able to identify Reyes through his eyes, eyebrows and foreheads, according to Deboni.
Cops found the jeep who was abandoned two days after the shooting with a Shell housing under the wiper who has a “high correlation” with Shell -Oomhulsels found on the Schietscène of 26 November, Deboni said at the time. The police would have followed the registration number of the jeep to the grandmother of Reyes. She had reported the Jeep Stolen, Deboni said, and she denied that she knew her own grandson when the police asked him.
Reyes was 17 when he was accused of those crimes. He continues to fight the allegations and has since remained in custody. While he was there, he tried to kill one of his cell mates with a shaft, O’Neill Burke said during a press conference on Wednesday.
During the conference she and CPD. Larry Snelling accused Reyes of shooting and killing even more people in 2020. According to the Studies Act, they did not reveal that he was at Juvenile probation and had picked up even more juvenile crime during the months when the murders took place:
- On March 2, 2020, he reportedly shot Francisco Mangana, 31, and killed in the 2600 -block of West 59th Street.
- On April 5, 2020, he would have killed Claudio Cossio, 21 and injured a second person during a shooting in the 4100 block of South Sacramento.
- He reportedly killed Damian Duran, 16, on 1 May 2020 in the 5200 block of South Homan.
- On November 8, 2020, 31-year-old Jose Martinez took his three children, all between 3 and 9 years old, to buy a puppy. Reyes is said to have been shot in their vehicle in the 5400 block of South Homan, killing Martinez.
- He is accused of killing Justin Gonzalez, 20, in the 4700 block of West 59th Street on November 9, 2020.
Ursitti, the chief of detectives, said that researchers took a big break when the police recovered a .40-caliber gun in the summer of 2020. Lab tests connected the gun to various of the things, giving detectives an essential lead. She added that Reyes had an “fairly important” presence on social media and that researchers could link his online messages to some of the shooting locations.
Officials have not found any indications that Reyes had one of his victims or that the victims had done something to have Reyes aimed at them.
The series ‘Not terrible’
This report continues our reporting of persons accused of killing, shooting or trying to kill or shoot at pretrial release for a crime accusation. CWBCHICAGO started our series of reports in November 2019 after Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans publicly mentioned“We have not had any terrible incidents” under the initiative of the Bond Reform of the Court.
The actual number of murders and shootings committed by people who are awaiting the trial for accusations of crimes is undoubtedly much higher than the number seen here. Since 2017, CPD has had less than 5% of non-fatale shootings and 33% of the murders.
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