Chicago gang members on trial for execution-style murder of 9-year-old.
since 2016, but few have shaken a city accustomed to corpses and caskets as the killing of nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee: a fourth grader shot execution-style by gang members as an act of revenge against the boy's father after being lured into an alley with the promise of a juice box.
A mourner holds the program for the funeral of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee at St. Sabina Church on Nov. 10, 2015 in Chicago.The duo approached the boy, still dressed in his school uniform, in November 2015 while he sat on a swing at a park after school on the city’s South Side. The murder horrified not only the larger community but also gang members, many who had themselves shot and killed someone, said Roberto Aspholm, an assistant professor of social work at Southern Illinois University who spoke with several groups on the city’s South Side shortly after Tyshawn’s killing.
Corey Morgan appears during opening statements in his trial for the murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee at the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago on Sept. 17, 2019.When lines like that are crossed within gang interactions, the ramifications can play out in several different ways.
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