Fort Hood solider charged with murder
Associated Press

FORT HOOD, Texas — A 21-year-old soldier from Addison was formally charged Tuesday in the death of a newlywed rap musician as well as attacks on three other people, Army officials said.

Spc. Christopher M. Reyes, assigned to Fort Hood, was being held at Bell County Confinement Facility while awaiting trial by military court martial, according to an Army statement.

Reyes is accused of killing 20-year-old rapper Eric DeSean Davis, a father of three, outside his home in Killeen on April 1, and of attempted murder for trying to kill a Fort Hood soldier and his wife at their residence later that evening.

Reyes is also accused of raping and sodomizing a female soldier Jan. 9 in her barracks at Fort Hood. Agents with the Army Criminal Investigation Command said they linked Reyes to the rape while investigating the shootings.

Police told the Austin American-Statesman that Davis was killed after three intoxicated Fort Hood soldiers in a vehicle started talking to him in his neighborhood. Detectives said they are not sure whether there was an argument, but they said Reyes shot Davis in an arm and the bullet traveled to his chest. Investigators said Davis didn’t know any of the soldiers.

Davis’ first CD, called “Playa’s Dynasty” will be released in June.
Reyes entered the Army in February 1999. He has been assigned at Fort Hood since November 2001.

Messages left with an Army official were not immediately returned Tuesday evening.

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