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Tyshawn Lee, 9, was executed by Chicago gang
members and police have charged one gang member so far and looking for one
member who is at large. Another gang member is in custody on unrelated charges,
so there are three suspects in all.
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Gang member charged with slaying of
Tracey Morgan, which prosecutors say led to fatal shooting of Tyshawn Lee
By RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago
Sun-Times
A reputed
member of a faction of the Gangster Disciples street gang, Khalil Yameen,
has been charged in the deadly gang-related shooting of Tracey Morgan,
who led to the execution-stye murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, Cook
County prosecutors claim.
After Yameen
and another man killed Tracey Morgan and wounded Morgan’s mother in 2015,
Morgan’s brother, Corey, sought revenge. Enraged that his brother was killed
and his “mama was shot” as part of a feud between rival gangs, Corey Morgan
proclaimed that “he was going to kill grandmas, mamas, kids and all,” according
to prosecutors.
Corey Morgan
and two fellow members of his gang lured Tyshawn from Dawes Park and into a
nearby alley last Nov. 2 by promising to buy the boy candy. One of those men
shot Tyshawn in the head, according to prosecutors.
Authorities
believe Tyshawn was targeted as part of the ongoing gang war.
The Morgan
brothers — members of a gang called Bang Bang Terrordome, a faction of the
Black P Stones — had been feuding with the Gangster Disciples faction that
includes both Yameen and Tyshawn’s father, Pierre Stokes.
Tyshawn’s
murder, therefore, was meant to avenge the earlier killing of
Tracey Morgan.
Tracey
Morgan, 25, was killed last Oct. 13 as he was being driven home by his mother after
he had left a police-sponsored meeting of parolees whose goal was to resolve
gang conflicts in the area. During the car ride, Morgan’s mother, then 56,
noticed that they were being followed by a silver sedan that had been parked
outside the meeting, Assistant State’s Attorney Jamie Santini said.
As they
headed toward Lafayette and 83rd, the car passed them on the left, then cut in
front of them and stopped, Santini said. Meanwhile, another vehicle stopped
behind the mother and son, boxing them in.
That’s when
Yameen and another gunman got out of the stopped cars, came up to the Morgans’
vehicle and pumped 15 rounds into it.
Tracey Morgan
was shot 11 times. Although his mother suffered a gunshot wound to the arm, she
managed to drive to a nearby gas station and call for help.
Tyshawn was
killed a few days later, on Nov. 2.
Yameen, 23,
admitted his role in Tracey Morgan’s slaying to another person, and has been
recorded saying that he was armed and at the murder scene.
Cellphone
tower records also show Yameen’s mobile phone at the site of the parole meeting
Tracey Morgan had attended — as well as calls made between Yameen and the
second shooter just before the murder, Santini said.
Judge James
Brown on Thursday ordered Yameen, of the 7000 block of South Maplewood, held
without bond.
Corey Morgan, Dwright
Boone-Doty, and Kevin Edwards
— the alleged getaway driver — are all in the Cook County Jail, awaiting trial
in Tyshawn’s murder.
Tyshawn’s
father, Stokes, was held without bond in March after he was charged with
shooting three people in the Gresham neighborhood. One of those victims is the
girlfriend of one of the men suspected of killing his son.
Filed under: Corey
Morgan, Dwright
Boone-Doty, Kevin
Edwards, Khalil
Yameen, Tracey
Morgan, Tyshawn Lee
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