CHICAGO — The FBI announced Tuesday that a suspect in the fatal shooting of an Illinois National Guardsman has been added to the agency’s “Ten Most Wanted List” and that a reward for his capture and conviction has been increased to $1 million.

The addition of Joseph “Troubles” Matos to the FBI’s notorious most wanted list “ensures that his face and description will be found on every FBI-affiliated website and social media platform, and this case will now be on every phone around the world until he is apprehended,” FBI Chicago Special Agent in Charge said. A news conference was held at the agency’s West Side headquarters for the announcement.

Matos and another man, Gary Roberson, were indicted two years ago on racketeering charges alleging they participated in the July 3, 2021, slaying of Chrys Carvajal, who was fatally shot in the back and abdomen in the 2200 block of North Lockwood Avenue in the Hanson Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Roberson is in custody.

According to Tribune reports at the time, Carvajal had recently completed Army basic training and was waiting to be assigned to a unit with the Illinois National Guard.

The 19-year-old grew up in the Austin neighborhood before his mother, who raised him and three other siblings, moved them to Portage Park out of fear of violence, relatives told the Tribune.

At a news conference after Carvajal’s slaying, his sister, Jennifer Ramirez said he was home on leave from basic training for less than a month before he was killed leaving a house party.

“He was fighting for our country,” Ramirez said. “He comes to Chicago, and he gets killed in the streets of Chicago.”

She said her brother, who died a week before his 20th birthday, aspired to be a police officer since he was a young boy, and he cared deeply for his family and others.

“We have to live a whole life without my brother,” she said. “You always see the news and think it’s going to happen to somebody else and never you.”

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