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.