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[h=4]Chicago boy, 9, lured into alley, executed in alleged gang hit[/h]Veteran police chief calls murder "most abhorrent, cowardly" crime he's ever seen.
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The reward offer is growing for information leading to the arrest of whoever shot a 9-year-old boy in Chicago Monday. Nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee was shot in the head and back while on his way to his grandmother's home on the South Side. (Nov. 4) AP
CHICAGO —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Police here are searching<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for the people responsible for<span style="color: Red;">*</span>luring a 9-year-old boy into an alley and executing him, an apparent retaliation hit that investigators believe was connected to the boy's father's gang ties.
A funeral will be held Tuesday for Tyshawn Lee, whose<span style="color: Red;">*</span>lifeless body was found riddled with bullets earlier this week<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in an alley on the city's South Side. Nearby, police also found the basketball that Tyshawn carried everywhere.
The brutality of the killing<span style="color: Red;">*</span>reverberated in a city that has seen a surge<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of brutal gun violence. Chicago has recorded 421 homicides<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in 2015, more than any city in the U.S.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy characterized Tyshawn's killing as perhaps the most brutal crime he's seen in a long career that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>also included stints in leadership positions in New York and Newark.
"Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnessed in 35 years of policing," McCarthy told reporters.
McCarthy said Tyshawn's death<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was related to his father's gang ties. He added that the killing was the most recent turn in a rise in gang violence on Chicago's South Side that started around August.
Police say Tyshawn's father, Pierre Stokes, has not<span style="color: Red;">*</span>cooperated<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with police investigators. Stokes told reporters on Thursday that he did not think his son's killing was retaliation.
"No, I don't think it was no retaliation because I never did nothing...for nobody to hurt my son," Stokes told reporters following McCarthy's comments, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Stokes appeared in court on Thursday on an<span style="color: Red;">*</span>unrelated felony gun charge. He was arrested in June 2014, while on parole for a 2011 armed robbery conviction, and charged with unlawful use of a weapon. He has pleaded<span style="color: Red;">*</span>not guilty to the gun charge.
Tyshawn's killing came on the same day that 20-year-old Kaylan Pryor, an aspiring model, was gunned down as she stood outside her grandmother's home in another South Side neighborhood just a few miles from where Tyshawn died.
Pryor<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had just left<span style="color: Red;">*</span>her grandmother's home to catch<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a bus back to her house in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, when someone in a SUV pulled up and fired on her and a 15-year-old boy who was standing on the sidewalk. The boy was critically wounded and Pryor died<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at a nearby hospital.
Rev. Michael Pfleger, a prominent activist and pastor at St. Sabina Catholic Church on the city's South Side, called Tyshawn's killing a "new low" for Chicago.
"There used to be some codes, some barriers, some lines that used to be drawn in the community, some things in the city that were not acceptable" Pfleger said. "An execution of a baby took place on our watch in the city of Chicago. We must now put the code back. We got to draw the lines back."
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