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Chicago Police and U.S. Marshals have served 21-year-old Anthony Nunnally with a third first-degree murder charge for the brutal September 2025 ambush of 17-year-old EPIC Academy honor student Travon Freeman.
Chicago Police have charged 21-year-old Anthony Nunnally with first-degree murder in the September 2025 shooting death of an honor roll student.
The victim, 17-year-old Travon Freeman, was an AP scholar and student council candidate at EPIC Academy.
On the morning of September 30, 2025, Freeman rode his brand-new bicycle to school for the very first time.
After meeting friends to grab snacks before class, the teenager decided to ride his bicycle around the block one last time.
Surveillance cameras captured the smiling student on his bicycle just minutes before the fatal attack took place.
As Freeman rode down the 8300 block of South Baker Avenue around 8:30 a.m., two masked individuals suddenly approached him.
The attackers stood directly over the teenager, opened fire with handguns, and stole his backpack before fleeing in a black Hyundai Sonata.
Responding officers found Freeman lying in bushes near his bicycle with multiple gunshot wounds while still wearing his school lanyard.
Investigating detectives recovered at least 21 shell casings at the scene and located the abandoned getaway car a few blocks away.
Police later discovered that the getaway vehicle had been involved in an expressway shooting just hours before the attack.
Following the tragedy, EPIC Academy postponed homecoming events and organized schoolwide trips focused on peace to honor Freeman’s memory.
In addition to Freeman’s murder, investigators linked Nunnally to the fatal shootings of two former girlfriends on the South Side.
Detectives connected Nunnally to the September 2024 murder of 19-year-old Sierra Evans, an aspiring hairdresser whose body was found in an East Side alley.
Police also linked him to the October 2025 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Gabriella Arellano on South Mackinaw Avenue.
Officers arrested Nunnally on August 3, 2026, and charged him with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Evans and Arellano.
During an August court hearing, Assistant State’s Attorney Mike Pekara called Nunnally a “scary, stone-cold killer”.
Prosecutors revealed in court that during an argument with another woman, Nunnally threatened to “kill her like he killed his last girlfriend”.
At that same August hearing, prosecutors identified Nunnally as the primary suspect in Freeman’s murder, but formal charges were withheld pending further evidence.
On Friday, October 2, 2026, Chicago Police and U.S. Marshals served Nunnally with the third first-degree murder charge inside the Cook County jail.
Nunnally remains held in custody without bond and is scheduled for a formal detention hearing on Sunday, October 4, 2026, at 2600 South California Avenue.
