Two members of the Chicago gangs blamed in the execution of 9-year-old boy in broad daylight. Prosecutors claim that the accused wanted to take revenge on the father of Tyson Whether associated with a rival gang for killing his family members.
Tyshawn Lee, 9, killed in ‘murderous rage’ by gang members bent on revenge, prosecutor says https://t.co/usMyok6RKv pic.twitter.com/OWmktJSgbz
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In November 2015, 9-year-old Tyson Whether played on the court in his school uniform. The boy approached the three men. Members of the group Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome is one of the divisions of Black P Stones — Corey Morgan and Kevin Edwards watched from the SUV as Dwight Doty lured graders in the alley, promising him a juice box. Then he pulled out a gun 40 caliber and shot Lee.
According to the Prosecutor, Tyson executed because of alleged ties of his father, Pierre Stokes, with the group Killa Ward gang Gangster Disciples, whose members allegedly shot brother Morgan and wounding his mother.
Gang killed a 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee as payback against his dad: prosecutors https://t.co/BDOMasXdKQ pic.twitter.com/BT4jsulNxo
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Earlier this month Edwards, who was the driver, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a 25-year prison term, writes the Chicago Tribune. He will not testify against two other men.
Boone Doty and Morgan are accused of first-degree murder. They are judged together, but with different juries — because they blame each other in this terrible execution.
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Morgan’s lawyers claim that in the execution of one guilty of «excessively evil person.» According to them, this man has committed a crime for their own reasons, without the participation or assistance of Morgan.
Lawyers Doty, in turn, the lawyers indicate that Morgan had a motive for murder, and his family bought the guns that killed the child. Morgan threatened to take revenge on rival gang: there is evidence that he promised to kill «grandmothers, mothers, children and everyone you can find». Lawyers dispute the Doty was found near the body DNA of their client on the basketball ball as evidence, and insist that the confession he made in prison, his cellmates about the murder of Tishana was just a survival tactic, an attempt to establish themselves and gain respect in the criminal community.
Two gangs involved in a bitter war, which has led to 15 shootings since 2011. A few months after the death of a child, his father allegedly sought revenge by shooting three people, including a friend of Morgan’s, near the fuel station.
