Posted on 11/05/2015 8:33:37 PM PST by TigerClaws
CHICAGO -- Police say a 9-year-old Chicago boy was lured into an alley and killed in apparent gang-related retaliation, reports CBS News' Dean Reynolds.
Tyshawn Lee, a fourth-grader, was shot in the head and back Monday afternoon near his grandmother's house in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.
1atyshawn.jpg Tyshawn Lee
Superintendent of Police Garry McCarthy said at a press conference at the murder scene Thursday it was the most "abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime" in his 35 years of police work.
He said Tyshawn was on his way to his grandmother's on Monday afternoon when he joined others in the alley near her house. That's when the boy was swept into a bloody feud involving two rival factions of the same gang. His execution was the latest in a series of vengeful assaults going back months.
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Chiraq. George H.W. nailed it, "A poverty of values."
Black Lives Matter not at this time.
Police say Tyshawn’s father, Pierre Stokes, is an active member of one of those gang factions. They believe that's the reason his son was targeted. Tyshawn’s mother Karla Lee reportedly denied any gang connections within her family, but Stokes himself agrees his son was intentionally killed.
“If he wasn't a target he wouldn't have gotten hit so many times in the back and the face. I think he was a target,” said Stokes.
McCarthy said Stokes is not cooperating with the investigation. “Let me put it this way. We've tried to interview him at least twice. I can't even tell you what he said because you can't say it on TV. But he made it emphatically clear that he's not cooperating with us.”
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Stokes said that he didn't believe anyone would want to hurt him, but if they did, there would be no reason to harm his son instead because Stokes is easily found in the neighborhood.
He said investigators seem more interested in him than in finding who killed his son.
Good lord-—they’re now killing young children.
The father isn’t cooperating with police.
This boy didn’t have a chance from the get-go.
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But my guns are the problem.
Looks like they “took their stuff to the alley”, as Rahm Emanuel suggested! Now that kid’s blood is on his hands, just for saying that.
Do black lives matter? Apparently not much to other blacks.
Whatever happened to the God-fearing God-loving grandmothers in these neighborhoods?
They’ve always been killing children. The lifestyle kills their kids.
Of course the father isn’t cooperating. His child’s life is less than his.
Paging Quentin Tarantino, please pickup the Black Courtesy Phone...
Welfare from cradle to grave has made family ties no longer necessary.
Rest in peace, Tyshawn. I’m very sorry that you never had the chance to live a full life.
Kind of reminds you of how cold blooded the muslim islamists are.
OMG
Sounds about right. 16 year old father. Why is this shocking?
Chiraq..George HW, who?
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