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Luis E. REYES

A.K.A.: "Little Louie"

Classification: Murderer

Characteristics: Drugs

Number of victims: 2

Date of murders: January 20,

1996

Date of arrest: 1999

Date of birth: February 8,

1977

Victims profile: Brandon Saunders and Vaughn Rowe (teenagers)

Method of murder: Shooting

Location: Kent County, Delaware, USA

Status: Sentenced to death on March 14, 2002

The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware

opinion 149 & 171, 2002

Luis E. Reyes

DOB: 02/08/1977

Race: White Gender: Male

Offense: Murder 1st (2 Counts)

Sentenced to Death: 03/14/2002

Date of Offense: 01/21/1996

Facts

On January 21, 1996, a pedestrian discovered the bodies of Brandon Saunders and Vaughn Rowe in a wooded area of Rockford Park. The victims appeared to have been killed and then dragged to the location in the woods, where they were covered in a maroon bed sheet. Both victims had been shot in the back of the head. Rowe had also been beaten. Wilmington Police Detective Mark Lemon was assigned as the chief investigator.

Police eventually regarded Luis Cabrera, as a suspect. Several items of physical evidence linked Cabrera to the victims. Within a week of the murders, Cabrera returned to a store in Wilmington a pager belonging to Saunders.

Cabrera later told the police that he had found the pager on the ground near his father’s home. Police also recovered from Rowe a watch that was programmed with the phone number to Cabrera’s father’s home. When police searched Saunders’ bedroom, they found an ISS Service system business card on which was written “434-6154 Big Lou.” Cabrera and Luis Reyes, who also was charged and convicted in connection with the murders, both worked at ISS. Some people knew Cabrera as “Big Louie” and Reyes as “Little Louie.”