Sydney Mays Jr. extradition process is underway

Posted on July 20, 2018
The process to bring Sydney Mays Jr. back to McLean County has begun. (Bloomington Police Department)

By Katherine Murphy

BLOOMINGTON – A Bloomington man accused of murder may be back in McLean County soon.

Charges against Sydney Mays Jr., 25, were filed Wednesday in McLean County Circuit Court in connection to the June 18 shooting deaths of three people.

Mays is charged with nine counts of murder along with single counts of attempted muder and aggravated battery by the discharge of a firearm.

Nate Pena, 22, Corey Jackson, 22, and Juan Carlos Perez, 33, were fatally shot June 18th and Pena’s 4-year-old son was critically injured.

Milwaukee Police arrested Mays on July 12 during a drug bust and the Pantagraph says he made a July 18 court appearance on an extradition request filed by the McLean County State’s Attorney’s Office.

There is a possibility Mays could challenge the extradition slowing the legal process to return him to Illinois by up to two months.

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