Chicago teen allegedly killed six strangers in nine months, and prosecutors say ‘none of these people had ever met him’
A Chicago man was charged in 2025 with five more murders in 2020 shootings, prosecutors said, hitting strangers at random, bringing the total to six murders and four attempted murders.
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke called the 2020 killings “serial murders.” BY: NBC NEWS/YOUTUBE
Antonio Reyes, then 21, was charged in February 2025 with five additional counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted first-degree murder, officials said at a press conference.
The shootings began when he was 16, police said.
Reyes had been in the Cook County Jail since December 2020 on a charge of killing Luis Davalos-Garcia, 26, on June 24, 2020, according to CBS Chicago.
O’Neill Burke called the killings “serial murders.”
“None of these people had ever met Antonio Reyes before, and there’s no reason to suspect Antonio Reyes had any reason to target them, but that’s exactly what he did,” she said.
Detectives linked Reyes to all six killings partly through a .40-caliber handgun recovered after the June 2020 shooting, along with social media posts, surveillance video and community tips, CBS Chicago reported.
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said Reyes should be off the streets.
“When we are dealing with someone this violent, we have to remove them from the streets. This started when Mr. Reyes was a teenager,” he said.
Charges cover six killings and four attempted murders
Reyes was charged in the March 2, 2020, killing of Francisco Mangana, 31 and he was charged in the April 5, 2020, killing of Claudio Cossio, 21, and the attempted murder of another man wounded that day.
He was charged in the May 1, 2020, killing of Damian Duran, 16.
He was charged in the November 8, 2020, killing of Jose Martinez, 31, and the attempted murders of Martinez’s three children, ages 3 to 9, who were in the car and survived.
He was charged in the November 9, 2020, killing of Justin Gonzalez, 20. Reyes pleaded not guilty.
O’Neill Burke said Reyes used a shank to try to kill his cellmate at the Cook County Jail in 2022.
Detectives were still investigating whether Reyes was linked to other shootings, CBS Chicago reported.
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