A Chicago man has been charged with first-degree murder, after police say he helped lure a 9-year-old boy into an alley with a juice box and then shot him in the head because of his father’s gang ties.
Dwight Boone-Doty, 22, was charged Monday night in the Nov. 2 death of Tyshawn Lee. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Boone-Doty has been held since his November arrest on unrelated gun charges. Guglielmi said Boone-Doty has admitted to shooting the boy.
The fourth-grader was one of more than 400 homicide victims in the Chicago last year. But even in a city where children are all too often the innocent victims of relentless gang warfare, Tyshawn’s killing was shocking because, according to police, he was killed for no other reason than to punish his father.
“Tyshawn was an innocent child betrayed by these three men,” Interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante said. “And sadly he paid the ultimate price for gang violence, senseless gang violence, that plagued his neighborhood.”
Interim Police Superintendent John Escalante was scheduled to discuss the shooting and investigation later Tuesday. Guglielmi said the boy’s death was a calculated act by three men: Boone-Doty, 27-year-old Corey Morgan, and a third man, Kevin Edwards, who remains at large and who is believed to be hiding in Iowa, according to U.S. Marshals,
“The plan was to execute him in the park, but we learned there were too many people in the park so they lured him into an alley, promising him a juice box,” Guglielmi said, noting that they also told Tyshawn they were friends of his father.
Police say Tyshawn was targeted because of his father’s gang affiliation and a recent series of shootings between two rival gangs, the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stones, in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Investigators believe that the boy was killed in retaliation for the Oct. 13 gang killing of Tracey Morgan, Corey Morgan’s 25-year-old brother.
Morgan has denied any involvement in the shooting.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday if Boone-Doty had an attorney who can comment on his behalf. Neither the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office nor the public defender’s office immediately responded to phone messages seeking that information.
Boone-Doty also is charged with murder in the Oct. 18 shooting death of 19-year-old Brianna Jenkins and attempted murder and aggravated battery in the wounding of Deshari Bowens, according to the state’s attorney’s office. Bowens, a 20-year-old man who is affiliated with a gang, was sitting in a car with Jenkins when she was killed.
Boone-Doty was paroled from the Illinois Department of Corrections in August after serving about two years on a five-year sentence in a drug case.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.Â
Nothing new in that cesspool I worked in for over a decade! Senseless killing going on for at least 3 decades I am personally aware of.
The south side of Chicago consist of two types of animals. The predictors and the prey!
If you spend any time in that jungle as I did, you would quickly find gun control laws are a hindrance and will get you hurt or killed very quickly! Anyone in this fine part of Chicago unarmed is passed what would be known as a fool!
I feel terrible about this little boy, but possibly you did not hear the back story.
The mother collected thousands of dollars for the burial of the kid, took that money and bought a new car. Her reasoning was that she was concerned about her safety!
See, the kids in many cases were a mistake in the first place, but then are used for extra money from welfare. When they get older having no home life, they join a gang. There is very little innocence!
Where is Sharpton and Jessie Jackson ???? Why are they not there getting people to protest and rout and burn
This is the ghetto section of the side not all of it,just like the west side killings are mainly in the ghetto. People that do not live there like to clump both areas together and say its the entire area. There are many nice areas where people work hard and do not allow that kind of activity like Chatham and Hyde Park to name a few. It is easy to say its all the same when the areas are not white and you have not spent a lot of time all over the city, not just the North Side.
Why are the gangs in this country not considered as terrorist? They kill an harm as many people as ISIS! Time to get off the train of “oh it is poverty that does this”. This is a bunch of bull, there are lots of poor people who don’t do this!
thank you for saying what ive been thinking also. they terrorizing & intimidating people & children, property owners, store owners, neighborhoods, innocent people ,selling their drugs ,pimping women & carrying crap loads of guns, I would consider that acts of terrorism!! this poor child lost his life over a damn color or gang name! I hope they give this guy life with no chance of parole.
He should not get life without parole. Why feed this piece of crap for life. Start using death penalty for these pieces of crap and after a while we may see a reduction in some of the violent crime. As for child killers already in jail. Ask the guards to leave the cell open and go on coffee break. Let inmates apply prison justice like they gave Dahmer. Show no mercy … they don’t deserve it. Tell the anti death penalty morons to sit down and shut up. These are the same people who think late term abortion is OK. I don’t believe in abortion but it’s too bad their mothers didn’t!!!!! We wouldn’t have these twisted criminal defenders to deal with. Maybe we should send them to Isis and tell Isis they are gay Muslims