CHICAGO, IL - On Thursday, April 24th, Cook County prosecutors disclosed that the man charged with shooting six people on Chicago's Southwest Side allegedly got sexual gratification from killing and then returning to the crime scenes to defile memorials for the victims.
According to the Chicago Sun Times, 21-year-old Antonio Reyes, a gang member known on the streets as "Redrum," was escorted into Judge Mary M. Brosnahan's court room in his green jumpsuit, covered in tattoos.
"Redrum" is murder spelled backward. He remained silent as prosecutors offered new details about killings he allegedly carried out during a shooting spree that stretched from March until November 2020 when he was between the ages of 16 and 17.
He is currently being held at the Cook County Jail on charges of murder and attempted murder when prosecutors charged him with five more murders back in February. At the time, Garien Gatewood, Chicago's deputy mayor for community safety, credited the detectives on the case in their ability to "remove a serial killer from the streets."
The new cases hinge on "admissions" Reyes made to other people about the five murders and what he allegedly did afterwards. Prosecutors said, "Defendant state that he gets an erection when shooting people, then gets hungry." They added that Reyes said "that he likes to return to the scene, film it, break up memorials, and urinate on the memorials."
Reye's public defender, Kate Moriarty, said that the state's cases are weak, arguing that the witness lists include "convicted felons" and a "career jailhouse snitch" who posed as a dead gang leader to elicit information. Moriarty referenced George Reyes, who pleaded guilty in December 2024 to killing a friend who was set to testify against Reyes in the initial murder case brought against him.
Court documents show that Reyes had called George Reyes from juvenile detention and told him to "take care of" the witness, a onetime friend named Sebastian Serrano. Moriarty said, "The words of George Reyes are not worth the pieces of paper they're written on," noting that he struck a deal with prosecutors. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the witness' murder.
Moriarty said that George Reyes was also identified as a suspect in two of the killings prosecutors outlined on Thursday, but he was not charged. Antonio Reyes and George Reyes are not related.
Prosecutors said that the earliest killing from Antonio Reyes stemmed from his frustration with his gang, the Latin Kings. He allegedly told a witness that members "were lame for not doing enough shootings" and said that he was going with some Latin Saints to hunt Satan's Disciples.
The judge ordered Reyes detained in all five murder cases, although he had long been ordered held in jail. While in custody, he was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed his cellmate with a "construction nail" back in 2022. His next court date is set for June 2nd.
According to the Chicago Sun Times, 21-year-old Antonio Reyes, a gang member known on the streets as "Redrum," was escorted into Judge Mary M. Brosnahan's court room in his green jumpsuit, covered in tattoos.
"Redrum" is murder spelled backward. He remained silent as prosecutors offered new details about killings he allegedly carried out during a shooting spree that stretched from March until November 2020 when he was between the ages of 16 and 17.
He is currently being held at the Cook County Jail on charges of murder and attempted murder when prosecutors charged him with five more murders back in February. At the time, Garien Gatewood, Chicago's deputy mayor for community safety, credited the detectives on the case in their ability to "remove a serial killer from the streets."
The new cases hinge on "admissions" Reyes made to other people about the five murders and what he allegedly did afterwards. Prosecutors said, "Defendant state that he gets an erection when shooting people, then gets hungry." They added that Reyes said "that he likes to return to the scene, film it, break up memorials, and urinate on the memorials."
Reye's public defender, Kate Moriarty, said that the state's cases are weak, arguing that the witness lists include "convicted felons" and a "career jailhouse snitch" who posed as a dead gang leader to elicit information. Moriarty referenced George Reyes, who pleaded guilty in December 2024 to killing a friend who was set to testify against Reyes in the initial murder case brought against him.
Court documents show that Reyes had called George Reyes from juvenile detention and told him to "take care of" the witness, a onetime friend named Sebastian Serrano. Moriarty said, "The words of George Reyes are not worth the pieces of paper they're written on," noting that he struck a deal with prosecutors. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the witness' murder.
Moriarty said that George Reyes was also identified as a suspect in two of the killings prosecutors outlined on Thursday, but he was not charged. Antonio Reyes and George Reyes are not related.
Prosecutors said that the earliest killing from Antonio Reyes stemmed from his frustration with his gang, the Latin Kings. He allegedly told a witness that members "were lame for not doing enough shootings" and said that he was going with some Latin Saints to hunt Satan's Disciples.
The judge ordered Reyes detained in all five murder cases, although he had long been ordered held in jail. While in custody, he was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed his cellmate with a "construction nail" back in 2022. His next court date is set for June 2nd.
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