This undated photograph supplied by St. Louis County Justice Providers reveals Perez Reed, who was charged Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, within the capturing deaths of 16-year-old Marnay Haynes on Sept. 13 and 40-year-old Lester Robinson on Sept. 26. Police try to find out if he was concerned in not less than 4 different homicides in Missouri and Kansas.
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This undated photograph supplied by St. Louis County Justice Providers reveals Perez Reed, who was charged Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, within the capturing deaths of 16-year-old Marnay Haynes on Sept. 13 and 40-year-old Lester Robinson on Sept. 26. Police try to find out if he was concerned in not less than 4 different homicides in Missouri and Kansas.
St. Louis County Justice Providers through AP
Authorities in Missouri arrested a person they believe is tied to as many as six murders in St. Louis and Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, officers introduced Monday.
Perez Reed was charged Saturday with two counts of first-degree homicide and assault in shootings that occurred within the St. Louis County space in September, Prosecuting Legal professional Wesley Bell stated throughout a press convention Monday. Reed can be dealing with three counts of armed prison motion.
Authorities say Reed shot a person within the St. Louis County space on Sept. 12 a number of instances within the chest. That sufferer suffered critical accidents and “everlasting incapacity,” Bell stated.
Police say Reed additionally fatally shot 16-year-old Marnay Haynes on Sept. 13 and Lester Robinson on Sept. 26 — additionally in St. Louis.
“The defendant was arrested in possession of a .40-caliber handgun that matched shell casings situated on the physique of all three victims,” Bell stated.
That very same gun matched further casings at different capturing scenes elsewhere in St. Louis County in addition to in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas. Different fees could possibly be pending, he stated.
An legal professional listed in courtroom paperwork as representing Reed did not instantly reply to NPR’s request for touch upon this case.
Reed lives in St. Louis, however traveled to Kansas Metropolis on Oct. 28, in accordance with a federal affidavit reviewed by NPR. Whereas there, he was proven on a surveillance digital camera heading to an house constructing and assembly an individual who was later found lifeless of their unit. In that very same house constructing, one other homicide sufferer was discovered days later.
The Kansas City Star reports that investigators implicate Reed within the killings of these two victims: Damon Irvin, 35, and Rau’Daja Fairrow, 25, of Kansas Metropolis, Kansas. Neither sufferer is known as within the federal courtroom data. In keeping with the newspaper, info from authorities “matches murder investigations opened by Kansas Metropolis, Kansas police earlier this month after the 2 our bodies have been found in separate residences inside the Wyandotte Towers, a 15-story constructing downtown.”
The affidavit states that the house complicated gave police an image of Reed’s driver’s license which was used to realize entry into the constructing. The house constructing’s surveillance footage confirmed a Black man with a crescent tattoo on his brow, the identical as Reed’s, strolling with each victims.
Reed was arrested by an FBI job drive this Saturday. He’s at present being held on a $2 million bond, in accordance with courtroom data reviewed by NPR.
A motive is unclear thus far
U.S. Legal professional Sayler A. Fleming with the Jap District of Missouri, who spoke alongside native authorities on Monday, stated Reed’s arrest was the results of, “relentless investigation of those hideous and violent crimes.”
No officer shared any potential motive for these assaults with reporters. Police did word that the victims didn’t seem to know each other.
Bell, the prosecuting legal professional in St. Louis, stated authorities as of now are usually not calling Reed a “serial killer,” as he has thus far been charged with two murders. The usual definition for a serial killer is somebody who murders three or extra folks.
Infamous serial killers captured by authorities embody John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys within the Seventies and Samuel Little, thought-about the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.
It took a while to catch these two males. Gacy was captured in 1978 after getting away along with his crimes for six years.
Little was in a position to proceed along with his homicide spree for many years. He confessed in 2018 to killing 93 folks from 1970 and 2005.
