Nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee was tragically shot and killed in Chicago on Monday. On Thursday, the Chicago Police Department added horror to the heartbreak saying the fourth-grader was intentionally lured into a back alley and shot multiple times as a part of a gang-related dispute to which Lee’s father, Pierre Stokes, reportedly has ties. The city's Police Superintendent called the murder "probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime" he had ever seen on the job. The details of the crime certainly give weight to that assessment.
Here’s more on what happened from the Chicago Tribune:
Tyshawn, a fourth-grader at Joplin Elementary School who loved to play basketball, was walking to his grandmother's house Monday afternoon when police said he was lured to the alley in the 8000 block of South Damen Avenue and shot repeatedly. A basketball he always carried with him was found nearby.
“Law enforcement sources have told the Tribune that the bloody conflict involves rival factions of two of Chicago's oldest gangs — the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stones,” according to the Tribune. “Police believe the Terror Dome faction of the Black P Stones targeted Stokes' son because his father, a convicted felon, reputedly belongs to the Gangster Disciples' Killa Ward faction.” Stokes denies he’s in a gang. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said he believed Stokes might know who his son's killer is, but has refused to cooperate with police.
Nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee was tragically shot and killed in Chicago on Monday. On Thursday, the Chicago Police Department added horror to the heartbreak saying the fourth-grader was intentionally lured into a back alley and shot multiple times as a part of a gang-related dispute to which Lee’s father, Pierre Stokes, reportedly has ties. The city's Police Superintendent called the murder "probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime" he had ever seen on the job. The details of the crime certainly give weight to that assessment.
Here’s more on what happened from the Chicago Tribune:
Tyshawn, a fourth-grader at Joplin Elementary School who loved to play basketball, was walking to his grandmother's house Monday afternoon when police said he was lured to the alley in the 8000 block of South Damen Avenue and shot repeatedly. A basketball he always carried with him was found nearby.
“Law enforcement sources have told the Tribune that the bloody conflict involves rival factions of two of Chicago's oldest gangs — the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stones,” according to the Tribune. “Police believe the Terror Dome faction of the Black P Stones targeted Stokes' son because his father, a convicted felon, reputedly belongs to the Gangster Disciples' Killa Ward faction.” Stokes denies he’s in a gang. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said he believed Stokes might know who his son's killer is, but has refused to cooperate with police.
This was on CNN
Why isnt this national news for the media? Kid was killed by 12 bullets.....
Maybe cause the kid was black and the killer more than likely was black? Just a guess.......