Felipe matias reyes biography

When They See Us, the new Netflix series about the Central Park Five trial, has received heavy praise since it premiered on May

Written and directed by Ava DuVernay, the four-part miniseries dramatizes the Central Park jogger case, in which five black youths were falsely accused of raping and assaulting year-old investment banker Trisha Meili on April 19, in New York City's Central Park.

The five teenagers, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, were imprisoned in and not exonerated of the crime until 12 years later, when the DNA of serial rapist and murderer Matias Reyes matched the attack and he confessed to the crime.

Played by English actor Reece Noi in the series, Matias Reyes was born in Puerto Rico in before he moved with his mother as a child to New York City.

Considered a loner, Reyes committed his first known attempted rape in , when he threatened a year-old Jackie Herbach at a church just east of Central Park with a knife.