Let us not forget Tyshawn Lee, every year on January 23 and
November 2. We made him one of The 82 murdered children of Unit 1012 and Janusz Korczak’s 190+ children where we will not
forget him. Let us remember how he lived on this earth.
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Tyshawn
Lee
(January
23, 2006 to November 2, 2015)
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A 9-year-old
Chicago boy was lured into an alley and gunned down because of his father’s
gang ties, police say.
Tyshawn Lee
was targeted by his killer and shot Monday (November 2, 2015) afternoon in the
city’s South Side near his grandmother’s housem police said. He “was murdered
in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I’ve
witnessed in 35 years of policing,” police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said
Thursday at a press conference.
“This
is not a stray bullet, not a drive-by — this is multiple gunshots to a child
and only that one person shot,” Reverend Michael Pfleger told the Chicago Sun-Times. “There’s
no question that this is targeted and that it’s an execution.”
The shooting
happened at about 4:15 p.m., police said. Police said they are still
investigating.
“We
believe that this is the most recent in a series of gang-related, violent
events,” McCarthy said.
Tyshawn’s
father, Pierre Stokes, 25, told reporters he does not believe he is the reason
his son was killed.
“I
don’t believe it’s retaliation because I never did nothing for nobody to hurt
my son,” Stokes said
Thursday.
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Photographs of Tyshawn Lee are on display at
his visitation at Haven of Rest church in the South Chicago neighborhood Nov.
9, 2015.
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HOMEGOING SERVICE (NOVEMBER 10, 2015)
LEN CANNON & TONY SOTOMAYOR ON
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THE MURDER OF
TYSHAWN LEE (JANUARY 23, 2006 TO NOVEMBER 2, 2015) [NEWS AS OF MAY 25, 2016]
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CHILDREN KEEP BEING MURDERED, AND POLITICIANS KEEP MOVING ON
Op-ed: Does the Name Tyshawn Lee Ring a Bell?
THE MURDER OF
TYSHAWN LEE (JANUARY 23, 2006 TO NOVEMBER 2, 2015) [NEWS AS OF NOVEMBER 2,
2016]
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