A 21-year-old Chicago man was ordered held pending trial after being charged in two separate murders of female victims.

Anthony Nunnally of Chicago has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

In court Wednesday, prosecutors said the female victims were his girlfriends when they died.

Nunnally is accused in a shooting that killed 19-year-old Sierra Evans n the 9500-block of South Avenue N, in the East Side neighborhood on Sept. 28, 2024.

Prosecutors said the pair had been drinking with friends. There were some arguments in the group, and Nunnally was upset Evans didn't side with him, prosecutors said.

He then allegedly choked her and was asked to leave that friend's home.

They left, but he apparently returned. And gunfire was heard.

Witnesses say he then jumped the fence and entered the basement.

That's where prosecutors say Nunnally told the witnesses he shot someone and flashed a gang sign.

A neighbor found Evans' body the next morning in an alley with apparent gunshot wounds.

Investigators say he later admitted to killing Evans when he threatened another girlfriend of his just months later, specifically saying he would kill her like his last girlfriend.

Police said Nunnally killed 17-year-old Gabriela Arellano in the East Side neighborhood's 11000-block of South Mackinaw Avenue on Oct. 29, 2025.

Prosecutors say the two had been seeing each other for a few weeks leading up to the murder.

Arellano was reported missing by her mother on Oct. 21, after dropping her off at a friend's home four days prior to that.

Surveillance video shows the victim and Nunnally at a restaurant with another person on Oct. 25.

The three of them then allegedly drove back to one of witness' homes.

Prosecutors say Nunnally and another man are seen looking up and down the street in the early hours of Oct. 26 before returning to a vacant lot on Mackinaw.

Just one minute later, a nearby Ring camera recorded a gunshot being fired in the area, before both suspects were seen running away.

A person living in the area then found Arrellano's body in the vacant lot with a gunshot wound to the head.

While Nunnally was in custody for his previous charges, he was then allegedly heard on a wire worn by his cellmate admitting to killing Arellano because she was going to "backdoor him."

Police records show, just days after Arellano's murder, Nunnally was arrested for allegedly committing an armed carjacking earlier that month. He's been in Cook County Jail since then.

Families of both victims were not seen in court Wednesday.

Nunnally is due back in court Aug. 26.

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