Violence between rival gangs is behind a good bit of the killing in Chicago. The trial should be interesting. The story provides background for those not familiar with this murder. Here is the story:



CHICAGO — It stands as one of Chicago’s most horrific crimes, in large part because of small details that are impossible to shake: The promise of a juice box that lured the 9-year-old boy off a playground and into an alley, and the basketball he dropped when he was shot and killed there.

Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a smart fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to send a message to his father, a purported member of a rival gang.

“It was one of the most evil things I’ve ever seen,” said the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest who presided over the boy’s funeral Mass. “I was over there and to see a young boy laying in an alley next to a garbage can with his basketball a few feet away, this assassination of a 9-year-old child took violence in Chicago to a new low.”

Dwright Boone-Doty, who will represent himself, and Corey Morgan will be tried together but before separate juries, each of which will only consider the evidence as it pertains to one of the defendants. The third man accused in the attack, the alleged getaway driver Kevin Edwards, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a 25-year prison sentence.

The story that prosecutors will tell at the trial is at once unimaginable and all too familiar in pockets of Chicago that have been plagued by gang warfare for years: The shooting was the result of a feud between the defendants’ Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome faction of the Black P Stones and the Killa Ward faction of the Black Gangster Disciples, which the slain boy’s father, Pierre Stokes, allegedly belonged to.

According to prosecutors, Boone-Doty and Morgan believed that Stokes’ faction was responsible for an October 2015 shooting that killed Morgan’s 25-year-old brother, Tracey Morgan, and wounded his mother. That his mother was shot may have been even more significant to Corey Morgan than the killing of his brother, who was in the same faction, as it was a breach of gang etiquette that led Corey Morgan to seek revenge on the innocent family members of his rivals, prosecutors allege.

What happened next followed the deadly playbook of so many Chicago shootings. A few days after Morgan’s brother was killed, Boone-Doty allegedly fired into a car occupied by a rival gang member. As happens in so many of these shootings, the rival survived his injuries but the woman who was sitting beside him, 19-year-old Brianna Jenkins, was killed. Boone-Doty has pleaded not guilty in that attack.

Prosecutors say the defendants then turned their attention to getting back at Stokes, first plotting to kill Tyshawn’s grandmother before settling on Tyshawn. And they wanted no leave no doubt about their message.

“His original plan was to torture this child by kidnapping and cutting off his fingers and ears,” then-State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said of Boone-Doty shortly after he and Morgan were arrested.

Instead, prosecutors say Edwards drove Boone-Doty and Morgan to Dawes Park on the city’s South Side on the afternoon of Nov. 2, 2015, and waited with Morgan in the SUV while Boone-Doty approached the boy, struck up a conversation, dribbled his basketball, offered to buy him a juice box and then led him to the alley, where he shot him several times at close range.

When Tyshawn was found, part of the story of his final moments of life was one small thing that wasn’t there: a piece of one of his thumbs that was shot off when he raised his little hands to block the bullets.

As the investigation unfolded, police said they couldn’t believe what they were finding out, from a rap song that Boone-Doty was allegedly writing about the shooting to his jokingly referring to Tyshawn as ‘Shorty’ when he allegedly told friends what had happened: “Shorty couldn’t take it no more.”

“This was something we didn’t even think humanly possible for even hardened gang members,” said John Escalante, who was the interim police superintendent when Boone-Doty was charged four months after the attack and who has since left the department.

On the day Boone-Doty first appeared in court accused of killing Tyshawn, the boy’s father, Stokes, opened fire on gang rivals, wounding three of them, authorities say. Stokes is in jail awaiting trial on aggravated battery and other charges in that attack.

“Mr. Stokes, who was involved in a gang lifestyle, ultimately suffered an unspeakable loss with the calculated execution of his son,” police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said at the time. “Despite this, he continued to engage in the same gang activity that started this initial cycle of violence.”

LINK: https://wgntv.com/2019/09/08/t...hat-shocked-chicago/

The Judge ordered three of the Prosecution's witnesses held in jail and an arrest warrant is out on the fourth. All of them didn't show up for the subpoena.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/new...trial-559679501.html

Hmm, methinks the prosecution may lose this one due to "snitches get stitches" and worst.The Chicago LEOs can tell us what is going on behind the scenes.

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Rev. Michael Pfleger

Ring a bell?

Yeah. Sure do. He is right to be outraged by the killing. I do not agree with his politics. He is a white priest at an all black parish and has stepped on lots of toes.

There is absolutely no rehabilitation for these animals that would kill a 9 year old child like that. A firing line or rope would be too good of a treatment for them. They deserve to be dropped off in North Korea to suffer there. Fucking animals.

I agree with jsbcody, I don't think anyone will be convicted. No witnesses will come forward either out of fear of retaliation or they simply hate the police/government more than they hate the animals who did that to a child.

Wall off the city for a year.

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Wall off the city for a year

Can I get a pass to watch the Cubs@ Wrigley and visit relatives in the burbs?

There is no justice complete enough for these vermin. They should be given a speedy trial, walked out into the closest alley, and have their brains blown into the slime where it belongs. If that were my child, I would gladly pull the trigger.

Human life means nothing to these criminals. People rarely understand exactly how cruel and vicious an individual can be, typically taken to new levels when in groups.

Lots of noise about the shocking, evil and horrific this killing was.
And it is!
But Chicago isnt shocked. Or horrified. Just another day in the 'hood.

They are animals, rabid animals and should be dealt with exactly as a rabid animal would be.

They should all get the fucking needle! Sperm donor included!

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

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Rev. Michael Pfleger

Ring a bell?

He's nothing more than a loud mouth jag-off.
It happened in his parish.

So did the original shooting that sparked all of this.
Then the second shooting.

And he DID NOTHING.

My real good friend is the States Attny on this case. We were just talking about it last week.

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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
They should all get the fucking needle! Sperm donor included!

Too late. Pierre Stokes is already dead.
I locked that asshole up a few times in my career. I remember him cryin like a little bitch when he got kidnapped for dope money years ago.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

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Rev. Michael Pfleger

Ring a bell?

He's nothing more than a loud mouth jag-off.

That's certainly the nicest way to put it. I would have used some 4 letter words to describe that guy. Especially after the gun shop incident.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
They should all get the fucking needle! Sperm donor included!

Too late. Pierre Stokes is already dead.
I locked that asshole up a few times in my career. I remember him cryin like a little bitch when he got kidnapped for dope money years ago.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

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Rev. Michael Pfleger

Ring a bell?

He's nothing more than a loud mouth jag-off.

Yep. He is a media whore - an Al Sharpton wannabe.

Representing himself I see against a testifying co-defendant. Good luck.

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Rev. Michael Pfleger


Ring a bell?


He's nothing more than a loud mouth jag-off.

Yep. He is a media whore - an Al Sharpton wannabe.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hey, let's not drift off about this guy. I started this thread to draw attention to the trial and the horrible crime committed. I am fully aware of Pfleger and his background and behavior.

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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
They should all get the fucking needle! Sperm donor included!

Back to the wall off the city for a year, nobody in or out, no services or resupply with a 5 mile free-fire zone / naval embargo.

Lord of the Flies style - stream it for entertainment, 'Running Man' style and tell people if they survive the year they'll get a special prize.

Then on day 365, every C-130 we own launch and drop a carpet of MOABs on Cook County.

Problem solved.