A poster at a memorial for Tyshawn Lee posted near where he was killed in 2015. Two men charged with the 9-year-old’s murder are on trial.

Pierre Stokes, Tyshawn Lee’s father, wrote “Love You My Boy” on a poster at the memorial where his son was killed in November 2015.

Brian Jackson/For the Chicago Sun-Times

A timeline of the Tyshawn Lee murder trial

Tyshawn’s murder, described by Cook County prosecutors as a targeted execution of the fourth grader, shocked the conscience of a city that saw some 450 killings that year.

The trial of two men charged in the 2015 murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee got underway mid-September at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.

Tyshawn’s murder, described by Cook County prosecutors as a targeted execution of the fourth grader, shocked the conscience of a city that saw some 450 killings that year.

Prosecutors alleged that Dwright Boone-Doty shot Tyshawn multiple times after luring the fourth-grader away from a South Side park in November 2015, a targeted killing that was intended as retribution for the killing of the brother of Boone-Doty’s co-defendant, Corey Morgan a few weeks earlier. Tyshawn’s father was a reputed ranking member of a rival street gang, and the boy’s death came amid a feud police say had fueled more than a dozen shootings.

Boone-Doty was found guilty of first-degree murder after only three hours of deliberation by the jury. He faces up to life in prison. Morgan was also found guilty, and faces up to 100 years in jail.

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