Will Sykes

"I can't change this city without help. People need to be inspired. They need to see me, they need to hear my voice."

Will Sykes was a copycat killer who appeared in A Real Rain.

History
Sykes worked as a security guard at a boutique in SoHo in New York City. In 2005, he was the victim of a mugging and spent two days in intensive care. When a series of vigilante murders occured, he saw it as a chance to become famous, suffering from narcissistic delusions. Intending to take the credit for being the vigilante, he went to Central Park carrying a gun, planning to kill any random criminal who approached him. When he was approached by an undercover cop, he shot him and fled. He then showed up at a police station and confessed to all the murders. Suspicious, Gideon took part in the interrogation of him. When Sykes was asked why he killed a cop, he claimed he did it to prove to the police how futile and dangerous chasing criminals the legal way is. He also claimed to have turned himself in so he could reach out to the public and inspire them. When Gideon asks him about the murder of vigilante victim Walter Derbin, Sykes simply says it was because he was a wife beater, but doesn't elaborate. When Gideon asks if he stabbed vigilante victim Father Breeman, a priest acquitted of child molestation, in the groin because he was a pedophile, Sykes says "it's what he deserved", revealing that he was not the real vigilante (Father Breeman was only stabbed through the ear, like the other victims). Sykes was then presumably charged with killing the undercover cop.

Modus Operandi
Sykes killed his victim, an undercover cop, by shooting him in the chest with an M1911. He had presumably intended to copy the rest of the M.O., but was interupted. Unlike the real killer, Sykes went somewhere hoping that someone criminal would attack him instead of targeting specific people.

Known Victims

 * The unnamed undercover cop