Man charged in Chicago gang-related killing of 9-year-old

A 27-year-old Lansing, Ill., man was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Tyshawn Lee, who police said was lured earlier this month to an alley on the South Side of Chicago and shot several times in retaliation for a gang-related shooting, according to ABC News.

But at Morgan’s bond hearing, prosecutors said the three members of the Gangster Disciples’ Terror Dome faction had been on the lookout for revenge in the weeks since Morgan’s brother, had been killed and his mother wounded in a shooting on October 13.

McCarthy said police received “an very bad lot of intelligence from the community”, unlike in other cases in which people have been unwilling to come forward.

He said Morgan appeared before the police accompanied by a lawyer recently, but the police were unable to arrest him for Tyshawn’s murder then, the police superintendent said. Police chief Garry McCarthy, who has been facing staunch criticism all week over his department’s handling of a different murder case, called Lee’s killing “probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime” he’d seen in his entire career. An arrest warrant for first-degree murder was also issued for 22-year-old Kevin Edwards, and a third man – whom police have not named – is in custody on an unrelated offense, according to police.

Tyshawn was shot November 2 in a slaying that shocked a city already grimly familiar with gang violence.

FBI Director James Comey said recently that violent crime may be up in certain areas because police are holding back from aggressive tactics, fearful of being videotaped and accused of brutality.

He also vowed that both gang factions involved in Tyshawn’s killing and the other retaliatory slayings and shootings had signed their own “death warrants”. The boy’s father has denied being involved in a gang. Morgan was later released after posting his $100,000 bond.

Asked about Stokes’ cooperation with authorities, McCarthy said he wasn’t being helpful, ” not at all”.

At a press conference Friday, Chicago Police Supt.

“They’re more anxious about me”.

The arrest was announced on Twitter early Friday by Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

Charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, both men were ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail.

One longtime resident, Deronce Curd, had trouble coming to grips with the idea of gangs going after children.

The planned demonstration – which coincides with the busy “Black Friday” shopping day in the USA – comes three days after police released video footage showing Jason Van Dyke shooting the teenager 16 times.