Pierre Stokes: Payback

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Pierre Stokes, Tyshawn Lee’s father looks to ask the Police some questions near the scene at 81st & Damen. Thursday, November 5, 2015. Brian Jackson/ For the Chicago Sun-Times

Nicole Mata (9th), Reporter

Pierre Stokes, the father of nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee, is charged with three counts of battery (hate crime) and one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in connection.

 

The shooting took place at around 5:45pm at a Shell Gas Station on S. Ashland Avenue on Tuesday March 8, 2016.

 

Two men also involved with Tyshawn Lee’s murder, ages thirty and thirty-one suffered non-life threatening injuries with a gunshot to the thigh and arm. As well as one twenty nine year old woman, supposedly one of the men’s girlfriend, who suffered a graze wound to the face.

 

Chicago investigators revealed new details about how the three men who murdered Lee, considered kidnapping and torturing him by cutting off his fingers and ears before killing him.

 

Tyshawn Lee, a fourth grader, was playing basketball at Dawes Park, Chicago with his friends on November 2, 2015.

 

Police say he was on his way to his grandmother’s house when the suspect or suspects, Corey Morgan, Dwight-Boone Doty, and Kevin Edwards, approached him.

 

They engaged him into conversation, and then lead him to an alley where moments later, Tyshawn Lee was shot and killed.

 

Tyshawn suffered multiple bullets to his head and back, and grazes on his hands.

 

“The assassination of a nine year old child” was “an act of barbarism.” States The Washington Post.

 

The three suspects, Morgan, Boone, and Edwards, had stalked Tyshawn and his grandmother for days, planning to kidnap him and torture him.

 

Weeks before Tyshawn’s murder, Morgan’s brother, Tracey Morgan, was gunned down outside a meeting hosted by Chicago Police.

 

Tracey Morgan was killed as he sat in a car with his mother, who was wounded as well.

 

“The shooting, prompted Corey Morgan to suspend the rules of gang warfare and target non-gang members.” explains the Chicago Suntimes.

 

Police say these men, Corey Morgan, Dwight-Boone Doty, and Kevin Edwards, involved with murdering Tyshawn, were all included in gangs, along with Pierre Stokes.

 

The suspects stated how they only killed Tyshawn because of his father’s involvement in gang affiliation.

 

“I don’t want it to end in any more murders,” Alvarez, who faces a heated primary challenge Tuesday in her bid for re-election, told reporters. “It’s just another example of the gang violence that’s perpetuating on the streets here in Chicago.” declares Chicago Tribune.

 

Judge Laura Sullivan held Stokes without bail; he could face up to life in prison if convicted.

 

“Mr. Stokes, who was involved in a gang lifestyle, ultimately suffered an unspeakable loss with the calculated execution of his son,” Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. “Despite this, he continued to engage in the same gang activity that started this initial cycle of violence.”