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Sunday, September 8, 2019
Trial to begin in 9-year-old's killing that shocked Chicago... (just heads up.... NO is wasn't the NRA)
(When will kids be able to be kids without shit like this?)
U.S.
Trial to begin in 9-year-old's killing that shocked Chicago
DON BABWIN,Associated Press3 hours ago
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CHICAGO (AP) It stands as one of Chicago's most horrific crimes, in
large part because of small details that are impossible to shake: The
promise of a juice box that lured the 9-year-old boy off a playground
and into an alley, and the basketball he dropped when he was shot and
killed there.
Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three
men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a
smart fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to
send a message to his father, a purported member of a rival gang.
"It was one of the most evil things I've ever seen," said the Rev.
Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest who presided over the boy's
funeral Mass. "I was over there and to see a young boy laying in an
alley next to a garbage can with his basketball a few feet away, this
assassination of a 9-year-old child took violence in Chicago to a new
low."
Dwright Boone-Doty, who will represent himself, and Corey Morgan will
be tried together but before separate juries, each of which will only
consider the evidence as it pertains to one of the defendants.
The third
man accused in the attack, the alleged getaway driver Kevin Edwards,
pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a 25-year prison
sentence.
FILE - This file photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows
Corey Morgan. Two of three men accused of taking part in the killing of
a 9-year-old Chicago boy to get back at his father, who prosecutors say
was in a rival gang, are due to stand trial. Jury selection begins
Friday in the murder trial of Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan, who
are charged with killing young Tyshawn Lee in November of 2015 after
luring him into an alley by promising to get him a juice box. (Chicago
Police Department via AP)
The story that prosecutors will tell at the trial is at once
unimaginable and all too familiar in pockets of Chicago that have been
plagued by gang warfare for years: The shooting was the result of a feud
between the defendants' Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome faction of the Black
P Stones and the Killa Ward faction of the Black Gangster Disciples,
which the slain boy's father, Pierre Stokes, allegedly belonged to.
According to prosecutors, Boone-Doty and Morgan believed that Stokes'
faction was responsible for an October 2015 shooting that killed
Morgan's 25-year-old brother, Tracey Morgan, and wounded his mother.
That his mother was shot may have been even more significant to Corey
Morgan than the killing of his brother, who was in the same faction, as
it was a breach of gang etiquette that led Corey Morgan to seek revenge
on the innocent family members of his rivals, prosecutors allege.
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Chicago Police
Department shows Dwright Boone-Doty, 22, who was charged with
first-degree murder in the Nov. 2, 2015, death of 9-year-old Tyshawn
Lee. On Friday, jury selection is scheduled to begin in the trial of
Boone-Doty and an accomplice charged with murder in the November 2015
slaying of Tyshawn Lee, who was killed, prosecutors contend, by members
of a street gang to send a message to his father, a purported member of a
rival gang. (Chicago Police Department via AP, File)
What happened next followed the deadly playbook of so many Chicago
shootings. A few days after Morgan's brother was killed, Boone-Doty
allegedly fired into a car occupied by a rival gang member.
As happens
in so many of these shootings, the rival survived his injuries but the
woman who was sitting beside him, 19-year-old Brianna Jenkins, was
killed. Boone-Doty has pleaded not guilty in that attack.
Prosecutors say the defendants then turned their attention to getting
back at Stokes, first plotting to kill Tyshawn's grandmother before
settling on Tyshawn. And they wanted no leave no doubt about their
message.
"His original plan was to torture this child by kidnapping and
cutting off his fingers and ears," then-State's Attorney Anita Alvarez
said of Boone-Doty shortly after he and Morgan were arrested.
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Chicago Police
Department shows Kevin Edwards. Two of three men accused of taking part
in the killing of a 9-year-old Chicago boy to get back at his father,
who prosecutors say was in a rival gang, are due to stand trial. Jury
selection begins Friday in the murder trial of Dwright Boone-Doty and
Corey Morgan, who are charged with killing young Tyshawn Lee in November
of 2015 after luring him into an alley by promising to get him a juice
box. The third man accused in the attack, the alleged getaway driver
Kevin Edwards, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a
25-year prison sentence. (Chicago Police Department via AP, File)
Instead, prosecutors say Edwards drove Boone-Doty and Morgan to Dawes
Park on the city's South Side on the afternoon of Nov. 2, 2015, and
waited with Morgan in the SUV while Boone-Doty approached the boy,
struck up a conversation, dribbled his basketball, offered to buy him a
juice box and then led him to the alley, where he shot him several times
at close range.
When Tyshawn was found, part of the story of his final moments of
life was one small thing that wasn't there: a piece of one of his thumbs
that was shot off when he raised his little hands to block the bullets.
As the investigation unfolded, police said they couldn't believe what
they were finding out, from a rap song that Boone-Doty was allegedly
writing about the shooting to his jokingly referring to Tyshawn as
'Shorty' when he allegedly told friends what had happened: "Shorty
couldn't take it no more."
"This was something we didn't even think humanly possible for even
hardened gang members," said John Escalante, who was the interim police
superintendent when Boone-Doty was charged four months after the attack
and who has since left the department.
On the day Boone-Doty first appeared in court accused of killing
Tyshawn, the boy's father, Stokes, opened fire on gang rivals, wounding
three of them, authorities say. Stokes is in jail awaiting trial on
aggravated battery and other charges in that attack.
"Mr. Stokes, who was involved in a gang lifestyle, ultimately
suffered an unspeakable loss with the calculated execution of his son,"
police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said at the time. "Despite this, he
continued to engage in the same gang activity that started this initial
cycle of violence."
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