Tyshawn Lee, 9, lured and killed by gang members

A person has been arrested in this month’s shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, Chicago police Officer Ron Gaines told CNN on Friday.

Around 4 p.m. on November 2, Tyshawn was lured into an alley near West 80th Street and South Damen Avenue and executed, police said. The fourth-grader was shot at close range – in the head and back – in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood.

But over time, McCarthy said, forensic evidence, witness identification and information developed from community members helped lead the police to the suspects.

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy described the “assassination” of a 9-year-old as “an act of barbarism” today.

One of the other two men is in police custody on an unrelated gun charge, McCarthy said, while a third, Kevin Edwards, is on the run and being sought by the police on a first-degree murder warrant in the death of the child, Tyshawn Lee.

Tyshawn’s murder shocked Chicago, a city that’s seen hundreds of killings this year.

The three men spotted Tyshawn in a play lot where he had climbed onto the swings after setting his basketball down beside him, prosecutors said. McCarthy called on the man, whose photo was released, to turn himself in.

“That gang just signed its own death warrant”, he said.

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.

One bullet cut through the boy’s right thumb, suggesting he was holding his hands out to block the gunshots, according to an autopsy report. “All I can say is that with every thing going on in Chicago to say that people are not interested in what’s going on is false”, Adam said. Morgan was recently arrested and charged with a weapons violation, but was able to pay the bond amount to get out of jail. Edwards is from the Chicago area, McCarthy said. Police found the basketball that Tyshawn was known to carry with him everywhere he went near his body.McCarthy said investigators believe the boy was playing basketball at a nearby park when he was lured into the alley and killed. He was later charged with possession of a firearm by a felon. They both were ordered held on $1 million bail to the sounds of gasps in the courtroom.