Another Man Faces Charges In Tyshawn Lee Murder Case

9 Year-Old Tyshawn Lee Before He Was Murdered

The 11.2.2015 slaying again had put Chicago in the national spotlight for its unflattering reputation for runaway violence. Days after the killing, then-Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called it “probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime” he had seen in his 35 years in law enforcement.

Tyshawn, a fourth-grader at Joplin Elementary School, was walking to his grandmother’s house shortly after 4pm when police said he was lured to the alley in the 8000 block of South Damen Avenue and shot repeatedly. A basketball that he always carried with him was found nearby.

Law enforcement sources have told The Chicago Tribune that the bloody conflict involves rival factions of two of Chicago’s oldest gangs — the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stones. Police believe the Terror Dome faction of the Black P Stones targeted the child because his father, a convicted felon, reputedly belongs to the Gangster Disciples’ Killa Ward faction.

In late November, murder charges were filed against reputed Terror Dome member Corey Morgan, 27, for his alleged role in the killing. On Nov. 16, Morgan and the 22-year-old man were arrested on unrelated gun charges in the southwest suburbs.

A third suspect, Kevin Edwards, who is also 22, is at large with a warrant out for his arrest in the killing.

In addition to police, the FBI and Cook County prosecutors will be on hand at Tuesday’s (3.8.2016) news conference, Guglielmi said.