Prosecutors have accused a 21-year-old who was already in jail on a murder charge of five additional murders over a nine-month period in 2020, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling announced Wednesday.
Antonio Reyes has been in custody since December 2020 on charges that he shot and killed Luis Davalos Garcia in Gage Park in June 2020 and attempted to shoot another man later that year. The five new sets of murder charges, filed earlier this month and first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, link him to slayings in March, April, May and November 2020. He appeared in court for an arraignment Tuesday, records show.
The alleged murders and attempted murders took place all over the Southwest Side, according to court records and city crime data. One — an alleged attempted murder of a man also in custody of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart — occurred in November 2022. Reyes allegedly attempted to stab another man in custody with a construction nail, per an indictment filed in January 2023.
Snelling is scheduled to announce the charges at a news conference later this morning.
Reyes is next set to appear in court March 18.
