(Sun Times Wire) Corey Morgan was found guilty Friday of murdering 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in 2015. Morgan, an alleged gang member, stood trial alongside gunman Dwright Boone-Doty, who was found guilty of first-degree murder by another Cook County jury late Thursday night after just three hours of deliberations. Morgan’s jury, which was sequestered overnight, deliberated…
(Sun Times Wire) Dwright Boone-Doty, the gunman who killed 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee four years ago, was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder. Jurors needed just three hours to reach their verdict. Charged with one of the most shocking murders in recent years, Boone-Doty faced damning evidence: His DNA was found on a basketball that lay…
(Sun Times Wire) With a few days to go before the expected start of the trial for two purported gang members accused of killing 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, a Cook County judge has locked up three witnesses whose testimony is crucial to prosecutors. And the judge has issued an arrest warrant out for a fourth. Judge…
(UPI) An Illinois man suspected of driving a getaway car in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in 2015 has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, prosecutors said. Kevin Edwards entered the plea Tuesday in exchange for 25 years in prison. Edwards admitted he drove the alleged gunman in the shooting — Dwight Boone-Doty —…
(ABC) The family of a 3-year-old boy who was shot in the face says they heard a gunshot while in another room and found their child with a weapon, according to police. Chicago police are continuing to investigate the shooting in a far South Side home at around 4:15 p.m. Sunday. The incident occurred at…
(Tribune) Two-year-old Julien Gonzalez left the birthday party and walked through the backyard, apparently following his father toward a fight that was getting louder in the alley. As he aproached the gate, somene yelled out, “Bust, bust, bust,” an order to a fellow gang member to open fire. The little boy stepped into the alley…
(Tribune) A smile spread slowly across the face of She’Vaughn O’Flynn as an old friend stepped from an SUV outside her home on the main drag of a small town in rural Michigan. Yolanda Brunt taught O’Flynn 15 years ago and had been her daughter’s school principal until the 12-year-old was shot to death in…
(ABC) A Chicago teenager who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting 14-year-old Endia Martin in a street fight in 2014 that escalated from a Facebook feud over a boy received the maximum juvenile sentence. The teen defendant, who turns 19 next month, struggled to hold back tears as she read a statement to the court before…
(ABC) A 12-year-old girl was fatally shot and a 36-year-old man was wounded Thursday night in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 11:20 p.m., the girl and the man were outside at a gathering in the 4200 block of West Wilcox Street, police said. The man heard shots and then realized he…
(Sun Times Wire) Authorities have identified a 9 year old boy who was killed Friday night in an East Side neighborhood shooting on the Far South Side, police said. The boy, Gustavo Garcia, was in an SUV with a 31-year-old man at 11:13 p.m., traveling west in the 3500 block of East 97th Street, Chicago…
A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself early Thursday after finding a gun in his northwestern Indiana home while everyone else was asleep, his grandmother said. Garrion Glover Jr., who would have turned 5 next week, was pronounced dead at a hospital in East Chicago about 3 a.m., according to the Lake County Coroner’s…
A 26-year-old man has been charged in a shooting that killed two people, including a toddler, in the North Lawndale neighborhood this week. Chicago police said Saturday that Devon Swan has been charged with murder in the shooting that killed 2-year-old Lavontay White and 26-year-old Lazaric Collins in the 2300-block of South Kenneth Avenue last…
This is one of those VERY RARE cases where good comes out of a Horrific Tragedy. Just hours after she died in her mother’s arms, 11-year-old Takiya Holmes did something remarkable. She saved six lives, according to the girl’s grandmother, Patsy Holmes. The youngest is 7 months old. The oldest is 67. Seven of Takiya’s…
Everywhere he goes, Chicago community activist Andrew Holmes has his daughter with him. Tamara Sword, his 32-year-old daughter, was shot to death in 2015 while she sat in the passenger seat of a car parked near an Indianapolis nightclub. She was an innocent victim of a gun battle in the parking lot, police said. Two…
A 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head Saturday has died, her family confirms. Kanari Gentry-Bowers had been on life support at Stroger Hospital. She is the third child killed by gun violence in Chicago in 5 days. Kanari was in the playground at Henderson Elementary in west Englewood when police say someone started…
A 19-year-old man has been charged in the shooting death of 11-year-old Takiya Holmes, police said Wednesday. Antwan C. Jones is facing first-degree murder charges in Takiya’s shooting, Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun-Times. Takiya died Tuesday morning at Comer Children’s Hospital. She was sitting next to her 3-year-old brother in the…
