A SUSPECTED serial killer has been charged with a seventh murder – after witnesses recognised his forehead tattoo.
The crescent moon inked between Perez Reed's eyebrows was the latest piece in the jigsaw puzzle to string together all the charges he is facing.
The 26-year-old from St. Louis had already been slapped with six other murder charges before he was accused of the latest killing on Friday, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.
The most recent charge concerns the death of Stephon D. Johnson, who was shot in the back of the head and stuffed inside a closet in his midtown Kansas City apartment in November.
Witnesses immediately recognised Perez from his photo on TV and claimed to investigators that the “serial killer” with a crescent tattoo had been Stephon's guest before his death.
Other evidence pointing towards Perez's guilt includes a key which cops found on his posession that fit a deadbolt lock at Stephon's apartment.
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Officials also revealed that the bullet in Stephon's head was fired from the gun Perez was carrying at his arrest, and DNA evidence collected from a cigarillo box also links him to the crime.
It's alleged that Perez started his killing spree between September and November last year in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas.
The suspected murderer targeted mostly women – some of whom were sex workers – and the victims range from 16 to 49, officials said.
In St. Louis County alone, he is charged with murdering four people, who were all shot in the head in September according to officials.
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The youngest and first was 16-year-old Marnay Haynes, followed by 40-year-old Lester Robinson.
The bloodshed then allegedly continued with the killing of 49-year-old Pamela Abercrombie and 24-year-old Carey Ross.
In Wyandotte County, Ks., Perez is accused of murdering Damon Washington Irvin and Rau’daja De’Naya Farrow, whose bodies were found in separate apartments at a complex in downtown Kansas City in October, authorities said.
Before the latest homicide charge investigators said the same .40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol was used in every murder.
Perez is additionally facing one count of armed criminal action and two counts of fraud involving a credit or debit device.
The FBI had been trailing him, before he was nabbed when exiting a bus in Independence, Missouri.
He is now being held in St. Louis without bond.
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