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Pierre Stokes, the father of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, speaks to supporters during a candlelight vigil held outside his home in memory of his son on November 5, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Police Superitendant Garry McCarthy claims Lee was lured from a park into a nearby alley and executed because of his father’s gang ties. Stokes denies being in a gang. On Friday, Stokes was arrested in connection with a shooting that left three people injured.
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Chicago police believe a series of gang related shootings have lead to several injuries, the death of one man’s brother, and a 9-year-old boy lured from a playground and executed in an alley. Now the father of the slain boy has been arrested after three people were shot for what police believe is a retaliatory shooting in his son’s death.
According to police the feud began around October 2015 when Corey Morgan’s brother was killed and his mother wounded in a shooting, the Chicago Tribune reports. Weeks later, 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was reportedly coaxed from a playground to an alley where he was shot and killed. Chicago police arrested Corey Morgan in connection with Tyshawn’s murder. On March 7, police arrested Dwright Boone-Doty, 22, and charged him with first-degree murder for Tyshawn’s death. Both men are awaiting trial.
A day after Doty’s arrest, police responded to a shooting in the city’s South Side, in which three people – two men and a woman – were shot. Pierre Stokes, Tyshawn’s father, was arrested, Friday, in connection with the shooting.
According to ABC 7 Chicago, a 29-year-old woman, believed to be Morgan’s girlfriend, suffered a graze wound to the face, a 31-year-old man was shot in the left forearm and a 30-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the right arm. Both men were treated at a local hospital and released; the woman refused medical treatment, the news station reports.
Stokes faces three felony counts of aggravated battery and one felony count of unlawful use/possession of a weapon.
“Mr. Stokes who was involved in a gang lifestyle, ultimately suffered an unspeakable loss with the calculated execution of his son,” Chicago Police said in a statement Sunday. “Despite this, he continued to engage in the same gang activity that started this initial cycle of violence.”
Stokes is scheduled to appear in court Monday, ABC 7 reports.
Read more at the Chicago Tribune and ABC 7 Chicago.
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