On Monday, February 6, 2017, a 33-year-old Hispanic female named Priscilla A. Gloria Reyes was found shot to death in her home in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. Officers responding at 7:36 a.m. discovered Priscilla, a 33-year-old Hispanoc female, with a gunshot wound to the chest; she was pronounced dead at 7:45 a.m. at the scene. Her boyfriend, 31-year-old Edwin Eliseco Chuy Cutzal, was also found fatally wounded from multiple gunshots.
The home was located in the 2500 block of West 46th Street; both deaths were ruled homicides. They were discovered in a basement apartment, the quiet of the winter morning broken only by the yellow tape and hush of neighbors who said such violence felt out of place there.
Prosecutors later said the violence traced back to Super Bowl Sunday, February 5. In the days before, Priscilla A. Gloria Reyes, had told a friend she was having trouble with a tenant renting a room in her Brighton Park apartment. That night, she called the friend again, asking her to come over because the tenant was “acting up.” The call abruptly ended after someone demanded to know who Priscilla was speaking to, and a witness in the building heard loud banging from the apartment. By the next morning—February 6—Priscilla A. Gloria Reyes, a 33-year-old female, and Edwin were found dead.
Investigators quickly focused on Priscilla's current tenant, 19-year-old Leandre Evans. Surveillance video from a nearby Dollar Tree showed Evans buying items that matched a receipt recovered in the apartment.
Text messages arranging the room rental were found on Priscilla's phone from numbers Evans used under the name “Dre,” and those numbers were linked to his email accounts.
A witness reported seeing Evans run from the gangway carrying a bag; prosecutors said he then called an Uber and left the area, arranging pickup near the 2600 block of West 47th Street. The mosaic of small pieces—texts, a receipt, a video—sketched a path out of the building and into the morning.
Leandre Evans, 19, was arrested, accused of killing Priscilla A. Gloria Reyes, and Edwin Eliseco Chuy Cutzal and ordered held without bond by Judge Donald Panarese Jr.
Reports at the time described Evans as a father of twin girls; prosecutors emphasized that Priscilla had found some of her former tenants through Facebook and had been worried about problems with this latest renter. As the case entered the courts, authorities laid out the Super Bowl Sunday timeline and the hurried Uber ride that followed
Public memorial pages and victim lists preserved the bare facts that remained after the crime scene was cleared: the names, the ages, the date. Priscilla A. Gloria Reyes, a 33-year-old Hispanic female, is recorded as “lost to gun violence on February 6, 2017” in Chicago; Edwin, 31, is listed alongside her. Together the entries read like a ledger—place, date, and loss—leaving loved ones and neighbors to fill in the rest.
An obituary posted by Merritt a Mendota-based funeral home that handled her private service adds a note of her beginnings, listing Priscilla's birth on April 22, 1983, in Hale Center, Texas. The obituary records the date of death as February 5, 2017, Super Bowl Sunday, while medical examiner and news reports mark the discovery and pronouncement early the next morning, February 6. Between those two dates is the narrow window when a 33-year-old female's life ended, and a Brighton Park home fell silent.
