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A violation of unwritten gang rules led to the execution of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, authorities say
The Chicago Tribune ^ | October 7, 2019 | Megan Crepeau

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blackpstones; chicago; gangcode; gangs; gangstadisciples; gangwarfare; illinois; shootings; tyshawnlee
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Until this country agrees to quickly execute these known murderers...this will keep on.


21 posted on 10/07/2019 5:32:42 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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


22 posted on 10/07/2019 5:43:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If only we had more gun laws for them to violate.


23 posted on 10/07/2019 5:58:24 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the worldÂ’s problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Unwritten because bangers can’t read???


24 posted on 10/07/2019 6:02:44 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist. Pop)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


25 posted on 10/07/2019 6:10:08 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Delta 21

“Always carry.”

That’s maybe good advice, but it doesn’t help a nine year old child.


26 posted on 10/07/2019 6:11:01 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A plague o’both your houses.


27 posted on 10/07/2019 6:29:18 PM PDT by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I can’t read it.Why don’t they outlaw Gangs.


28 posted on 10/07/2019 6:31:24 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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?


29 posted on 10/07/2019 7:20:48 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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To: Delta 21

Check, check and check.

CC


30 posted on 10/07/2019 7:52:57 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s clear to me, Chicongo needs more gun laws.


31 posted on 10/07/2019 8:14:45 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (.Calling Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton Reverends is like calling dog shit tootsie rolls)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I blame Bill Clinton.

Apparently midnight basketball is a failure.

32 posted on 10/07/2019 9:07:23 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: jocon307

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.


33 posted on 10/07/2019 9:36:52 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Born and raised here. I am never going back. Never.


34 posted on 10/08/2019 1:47:12 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We need to fast track, get the death penalty reinstated, quick trial and execution


35 posted on 10/08/2019 3:19:41 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It was not an execution, it was a murder. Why don’t people learn to use their language?


36 posted on 10/08/2019 7:01:02 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: nikos1121

I hear ya’. Too much violent crime in Chicago.


37 posted on 10/08/2019 8:38:10 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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