Overview

• Antonio Reyes, who was 16 and 17 at the time of the alleged crimes, has been charged with six murders and four attempted murders from 2020 in Chicago.
• The attacks were described as random, with victims having no known connection to Reyes; one victim was killed while buying a puppy with his family.
• Reyes has been in custody since December 2020 for the murder of Luis Davalos Garcia and is also accused of stabbing a cellmate in 2022 while in jail.
• Key evidence in the investigation included linking a recovered .40-caliber handgun to multiple shootings and Reyes' social media activity to the crimes.
• Chicago police and prosecutors emphasized the brutality of the crimes and the extensive efforts to connect Reyes to the killings over four years of investigation.