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 ...
Too disgusting and depressing. I can’t read much more.
Always carry.
Every day.
Everywhere you go.
A rational and honest city government would put a bounty on these savages. Sadly, Chicago City government is neither.
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DNC developed utopia on full display.
“the rivalry between the Killa Ward and Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome factions was linked to some 15 shootings...”
Just an innocent 9yo boy... Rest in peace, Tyshawn.
Another story about this case said they had originally planned to torture him before killing him. Pure savages.
The killers were too, at that age.
Pheeew!
Good thing red flag laws won’t be applied to theses saints of society.
We’re all safer now
It’s amazing that Foxx even prosecuted.
“It’s amazing that Foxx even prosecuted.”
It ain’t over yet. Sentencing is coming up. She’ll probably ask for home confinement with ankle bracelets.
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..I mean , they wouldn't go to the quiet peaceful law abiding neighborhoods first would they?
Trump needs to take the syria troops he’s moving and invade Chicago.
“..I mean , they wouldn’t go to the quiet peaceful law abiding neighborhoods first would they?“
A couple of them tried that trick a couple months ago. Thought it’d be easy pickings in rural Lake County. One of them got dead right quick. The rest are facing Felony murder charges, or were anyway.
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I thought that taking down the Confederate statues would solve this issue.
I guess his black life didn’t matter....since other blacks took it away from him.
Not even animals. Just brutish sub-humans who do not deserve to live.
“The intentional shooting shook Chicago”
NO, it didn’t. It didn’t phase Chicago or any of the other low life liberals.
“The intentional shooting shook Chicago”
NO, it didn’t. It didn’t phase Chicago or any of the other low life liberals.
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