By Thomas Vogel<\/p>\n
The man charged Monday for the grisly killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in\u00a0November made incriminating statements while in police custody, boasting about the murder and describing plans to write a rap song about it, city and county officials revealed Tuesday.<\/p>\n
During a press conference at Chicago police headquarters, however, authorities declined to reveal any more details about statements made by Dwright Boone-Doty, a\u00a022-year-old Grand Crossing man\u00a0already in custody on an unrelated weapons charge.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis case stands out front and center,\u201d said Interim Chicago Police Supt. John Escalante. \u201cWe hope this development will bring closure.\u201d<\/p>\n
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While shootings are not uncommon on the South Side, Tyshawn\u2019s killing was particularly shocking to city residents. The boy was playing basketball and using a swing set at Dawes Park in the city\u2019s Auburn Gresham community when Doty lured him into a nearby alley before shooting him in the head, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Coincidentally, the charges against Doty come just one week before the March 15 primary for the embattled Cook County state\u2019s attorney’s office. In her upstart campaign, challenger Kim Foxx has stressed the importance of resurrecting public trust in city government, the prosecutor’s office and law enforcement, qualities she and other critics said were lost through several controversial decisions by incumbent State’s Atty. Anita Alvarez.<\/p>\n
Specifically,\u00a0Alvarez critics argue her office has bowed to political considerations over effectively administering criminal justice, pointing to the delayed prosecution of a Chicago policeman caught on video shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in October 2014.\u00a0Alvarez\u2019s office did not charge the officer until after Mayor Rahm Emanuel\u2019s 2015 re-election bid.<\/p>\n
Escalante repeatedly thanked the coalition of law enforcement officials, including the FBI, for their efforts in identifying Tyshawn\u2019s killer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis team stopped at nothing to bring justice to Tyshawn,\u201d Escalante said. \u201cThey all worked very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alvarez outlined details of the November killing, saying Doty lured Tyshawn into an alleyway by offering to buy the child \u201cwhatever he wanted\u201d at a nearby store. Alvarez also said Doty\u2019s original plan was to torture Tyshawn and also target his grandmother.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve tried hundreds of cases involving gang violence,\u201d Alvarez said. \u201cI must tell you, I\u2019ve never been more disgusted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep.\u00a0Bobby Rush (D-IL) described a \u201cchill going down my spine\u201d as he heard officials describe the new details of the killing:\u00a0\u201cI hope this is a foundation for better police and community relations,\u201d Rush said. \u201cWe need each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doty is not the only suspect charged in Tyshawn\u2019s shooting.\u00a0Just a few weeks after Tyshawn\u2019s killing, prosecutors charged another man, Corey Morgan, with murder.<\/p>\n
Authorities speculated Tyshawn\u2019s killing was retaliation in an ongoing gang feud in Auburn Gresham. In an earlier October 2015 shooting, Morgan\u2019s 25-year-old brother, Tracey died.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement said Pierre Stokes, Lee\u2019s father, has gang-ties to the group responsible for Morgan\u2019s killing. Authorities said Stokes eventually cooperated in the Tyshawn investigation.<\/p>\n
A third man, Kevin Edwards, remains at large with an active arrest warrant. Ninth District Police Cmdr. Eugene Roy said the department is pursuing several leads and asked for Edwards to \u201cdo the right thing\u201d and turn himself in to authorities.<\/p>\n
James Milton, 73, said the charges against Doty don\u2019t offer any closure, instead saying the boy\u2019s killers should be executed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s gone forever,\u201d said Milton, a Bronzeville native. \u201cHe was just a 9-year-old boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Photo at top: Tyshawn Lee was 9 years old when he was killed near Dawes Park on the city’s South Side (Inset photo courtesy of Fox 32 Chicago.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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