The trial of two men charged in the 2015 murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee got underway Tuesday 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 allege 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 is 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.
The trial is expected to last three weeks or more.
