Posted on 10/07/2019 4:37:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
In life, Tyshawn Lee was a mischievous fourth grader who loved basketball, Xbox and macaroni and cheese.
In death, Tyshawn became a symbol of the cycle of gang retaliation that authorities say drives much of the violence in pockets of Chicago’s South and West sides.
Nearly four years after the skinny 9-year-old was lured into a South Side alley and shot execution-style by rivals of his father’s gang, separate Cook County juries last week convicted Corey Morgan and Dwright Doty in his killing. A third defendant, Kevin Edwards, pleaded guilty before the trial. All were allegedly members of the Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome faction of the Black P Stones gang.
The three targeted Tyshawn because — “in the happenstance of the universe,” as Assistant State’s Attorney Patrick Waller put it in the trial’s closing arguments — he was born to Pierre Stokes, a reputed ranking member of the rival Gangster Disciples’ Killa Ward faction.
Seeking revenge for the recent shooting of Morgan’s mother and brother, Doty won Tyshawn’s trust at a playground in Dawes Park in the South Side’s Gresham neighborhood, dribbling his basketball before luring the boy into a nearby alley and shooting him multiple times at close range.
Morgan and Edwards watched from a nearby SUV.
Seven .40-caliber shells — and his beloved basketball — were found by Tyshawn’s body.
The intentional shooting shook Chicago and made headlines nationwide.
But the fallout from the feud between factions of two storied Chicago gangs had repercussions beyond Tyshawn’s killing, and many of those involved — including Tyshawn’s father — still await their own day in court.
Authorities have estimated that the rivalry between the Killa Ward and Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome factions was linked to some 15 shootings, including at least five homicides, from 2011 to 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Until this country agrees to quickly execute these known murderers...this will keep on.
The government tolerates the existence of these gangs for decades, making zero effort to bring this under control..... and .... they want MY AR-15?
GFY
If only we had more gun laws for them to violate.
Unwritten because bangers can’t read???
I appreciate our gentle author’s efforts at recounting this mayhem, but I could not read the whole piece.
All I know is that a little boy, who never harmed anyone, was brutally murdered. And that NONE of these Black People’s lives matter. Not to their own community and not to the Dems/Libs/Commies/Media.
We right wing wing nuts care more about each of them than Barack Obama or any of the rest of the fake phony frauds do.
And that is a crying shame.
“Always carry.”
That’s maybe good advice, but it doesn’t help a nine year old child.
A plague o’both your houses.
I can’t read it.Why don’t they outlaw Gangs.
I don’t really care for Chicago stories. I’ve lived in one of the suburbs, worked in an out of the town.
It is a shithole in the making. Given time, it will develop into a place where nobody cares about or is eager to visit.
Too bad, Chi-town, you are the pits. Why go there?
Check, check and check.
CC
It’s clear to me, Chicongo needs more gun laws.
Apparently midnight basketball is a failure.
No but it will help save ME and mine against the assholes that roam the streets capable and willing to do this kind of $hit.
Born and raised here. I am never going back. Never.
We need to fast track, get the death penalty reinstated, quick trial and execution
It was not an execution, it was a murder. Why don’t people learn to use their language?
I hear ya’. Too much violent crime in Chicago.
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