Chicago gunman is jailed for 90 years and his accomplice gets 45 for murdering a rival gang member’s nine-year-old son by luring him into an alley with a juice box and shooting him in the skull
- Dwright Boone-Doty, 26, shot Tyshawn Lee in the head in 2015
- He lured the boy into an alley way after approaching him in a Chicago park
- The killing was an act of revenge against Tyshawn’s father, Pierre Stokes
- His gang had killed Boone-Doty’s friend’s brother and injured the man’s mother
- Corey Morgan, who helped plot Tyshawn’s murder, was jailed for 40 years
Tyshawn Lee was murdered in 2015 when he was nine
A gunman has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for luring a rival gang member’s nine-year-old son after luring him into an alley way with a juice box.
Dwright Boone-Doty, 26, shot Tyshawn Lee dead in 2015 in Chicago.
On Wednesday, he was sentenced to 90 years behind bars and his accomplice, 31-year-old Corey Morgan, was sentenced to 45 years.
Prosecutors said Morgan was the ‘driving force’ behind the murder but that Boone-Doty was the one who pulled the trigger.
They killed Tyshawn in a brutal act of revenge against his father, Pierre Stokes, who belonged to a rival gang which killed Morgan’s 25-year-old brother and wounded his mother in another shooting.
Morgan, Boone- Doty and other gang members went to a park to scope out Lee.
Initially, they planned to kidnap and then torture him.
Boone-Doty then approached him, played basketball with him and offered to buy him a juice box. He then led the boy down an alley and shot him in the head.
Dwright Boone-Doty, 26, (left) and Corey Morgan, 31, (right) were jailed for 90 years and 45 years respectively on Wednesday
The act of unspeakable violence was labeled a ‘dark day’ in Chicago’s gang warfare.
The killing was an act of revenge against Tyshawn’s gangster father Pierre Stokes
During Doty’s trial, jurors heard a sickening recording where he described the murder.
‘I’m looking at him. We walking. Bop.
‘Hit the ground. Bop-bop-bop-bop-bop. I’m laughing. I’m looking … Bop bop bop bop bop man,’ he said.
The nine-year-old was hit three times, including once in the head and once in the back.
The third bullet severed the top of the boy’s right thumb, suggesting he tried to block the bullets with his hands, his autopsy found.
A third man who was involved pleaded guilty to murder.
He served as the getaway driver for them.
Tyshawn was playing in the park when his killer approached him and lured him away by offering to buy him a juice box from a nearby store. The boy is shown with his mother