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[h=4]Two suspects in custody for Chicago gang hit on 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee[/h]Tyshawn Lee, 9, was lured into an alley and executed, police said. Superintendent Garry McCarthy said police are searching for a second suspect identified as Kevin Edwards.
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Chicago police said on Friday that 27-year-old Corey Morgan had been arrested in the fatal shooting of nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee on the city's South Side. Wochit
Police announced on Friday the arrest of Corey Morgan, 27, for the brutal murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.(Photo: AP)
CHICAGO— A<span style="color: Red;">*</span>27-year-old gang member faces a murder charge<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for the brutal execution<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of a 9-year-old boy who was lured into an alley<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and shot<span style="color: Red;">*</span>earlier this month, police said Friday.
Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy<span style="color: Red;">*</span>identified the suspect<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as Corey Morgan, of Lansing, Ill., who was charged with first-degree murder. McCarthy<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said that Morgan<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had at least two other accomplices. Police declined to detail the exact role they believe Morgan and his accomplices played in the killing.
Police are hunting<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for a second man, whom McCarthy<span style="color: Red;">*</span>identified as Kevin Edwards. Investigators<span style="color: Red;">*</span>believe one other person played a role<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in the shooting. That person is<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in police custody on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>an unrelated charge. Police have yet to identify that suspect.
McCarthy said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they believe the suspects targeted <span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tyshawn<span style="color: Red;">*</span>because of his father's gang ties.
"It was act of barbarism, the assassination of a 9-year-old child as a gang retaliation to get back at his father," McCarthy said.
The father, Pierre Stokes, previously told reporters<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he is not in a gang and does not believe his son's killing was retaliation. Stokes is on probation for a 2011 armed robbery conviction. He was arrested and charged in June 2014 with unlawful use of a weapon, but has pleaded not guilty to that charge.
"All three (suspects) are in the same gang," McCarthy told reporters. "I can tell you this: They are going to be obliterated. That gang just signed its own death warrant."
McCarthy added that he is going to assign police resources to insure that "neither one of those gangs can raise their heads again."
Chicago Police Department say they are are looking for Kevin Edwards, who they say was involved in the Nov. 2 murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. Police say Tyshawn was targeted because of his father's gang affiliation.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Chicago Police Department)
Asked on Friday about Stokes' cooperation, McCarthy said the father has not helped "at all."<span style="color: Red;">*</span>McCarthy described the Nov. 2<span style="color: Red;">*</span>killing as part of a string of violence between rival gangs on the city's South Side that began<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in August and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has left at least two other people dead, in addition to several non-fatal shootings.
"Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnessed in 35 years of policing," McCarthy told reporters earlier this month as police searched for tips.
At his funeral,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tyshawn was recalled as<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a little boy who loved basketball, school and playing video games with his cousins.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Police found the basketball that Tyshawn was known to carry with him everywhere he went near his body.McCarthy said investigators believe the boy was playing basketball<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at a nearby park when he was lured into the alley and killed.
McCarthy said Morgan and his lawyer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>met with police<span style="color: Red;">*</span>two days after Tyshawn's killing,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but did not make a statement. He was arrested two weeks later in the Chicago suburbs on an unrelated weapons violation. Bond<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was set at $1 million, but Morgan was released after posting<span style="color: Red;">*</span>$100,000.
McCarthy said they believe that Edwards, the wanted suspect, was still in the area and urged the man to turn himself in.
"We are going to catch you, we're definitely going to catch him," McCarthy. "And quite frankly, in a heinous crime like this, he's probably better off if we catch him than somebody else."
Police and local activists offered reward money for information that would lead to the suspects' arrests. McCarthy said that police received plenty of community help in developing leads, but ultimately the reward money did not come into play.
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