Nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee from Chicago was allegedly lured from a park to be killed all due to his father's gang relations.
According to msn two Chicago gangs have been feuding for months and this horrible act was actually a gang retaliation.
Tyshawn was a fourth-grader at Joplin Elementary School. The young boy was en route to his grandmother's house when he was called into an alley where he was shot in the head and back.
Pierre Stokes, the boy's father, is an alleged gang member and a convicted felon. He is also not cooperating with police according to Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy who said, "I don't think he's a witness to it, so I'm not sure how much he could help us, but I could tell you this, I'm a father, many of us here are fathers. My reaction would be a little different."
When asked if he thought his son's murder was a form of retaliation, Stokes said, "No, I don't think it was no retaliation because I never did nothing to- for nobody to hurt my son."
Either way, Tyshawn's murder has the community quite shook up. McCarthy said that this was the, "most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnesed in 35 years of policing. Everybody is sick; everybody is disgusted."
There is currently a $35,000 reward for any information leading to the arrest of Tyshawn's killer.
Our thoughts are with Tyshawn's family during this difficult time.
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