ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

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9 YEAR OLD EXECUTED IN ALLEY -- CHICAGO

This story is so revolting and sad.



Whoever shot ^ 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee multiple times on his way home from school on Monday is inhuman.

Tyshawn was shot at around 4:30 in the afternoon. He loved basketball; his ball was found near his body. The child was shot several times at close range in an alley in the 8000-block of South Damen Avenue, near his grandmother's house in Chicago's Gresham neighborhood. Tyshawn lived with his mother.

Police believe that Tyshawn may have been targeted in retaliation for his father's alleged gang activity. In an interview Tuesday night with the Tribune, Pierre Stokes denied anyone would have a motive to kill him, but if they did, there was no reason to take it out on his son because he’s out in public in the neighborhood all the time. If anyone wanted to harm him, they could find the opportunity, he said. “I’m not hard to find,” Stokes said.

The reward offered for information leading to an arrest in Tyshawn's murder jumped from $20,000 to $35,000 Wednesday morning.

"This person is not an individual. They're not a human being. When you do what you've done to a 9-year-old, there's a place for you. There is no humanity in that place," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.

Overnight, Tyshawn's mother slept in the alley where he was shot to death. An ambulance took Karla Lee to a South Side hospital Wednesday morning. "She was calling his name, screaming out, calling for Tyshawn to come to her. After so long, she got up and started walking back this way," said Bertha Lee, Tyshawn's grandmother.

Police are asking the community for help to find the boy's killer.

RIP Tyshawn Lee.

Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local...story.html