ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

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Nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee (pictured above with his mother) was targeted because of his father's gang ties, lured into a South Side alley Monday afternoon and executed, Chicago police officials said Thursday.

Speaking at the edge of the Gresham alley where Tyshawn was shot multiple times, Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy called the slaying "probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime" he had seen in his 35 years in law enforcement.

Last month, a Killa Ward member was wounded and a teenage woman killed in a retaliatory shooting just days after a Terror Dome member was fatally shot and his mother wounded, according to police. Pierre Stokes, Tyshawn's father, is said to be a member of Killa Ward.

McCarthy said leads are pouring in from the community but investigators don't have the evidence yet to make an arrest.

A person of interest who had surrendered Monday evening with a lawyer was later released from Area South police headquarters after being questioned by detectives. McCarthy said the man refused to give a statement, so investigators had to let him go.

"We're pretty certain that we know exactly how it occurred. We know when it occurred. We're pretty certain that we even know the individuals involved," McCarthy told reporters. "But we need a little bit more to make sure that (an arrest) happens."

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the activist pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church in Auburn-Gresham, told reporters that Tyshawn's death was a new low in Chicago violence.

"Now we're going to target family members? We're going to target mothers? We're going to target grandmothers? We're going to target babies?"

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So far, Tyshawn's father has refused to cooperate with the investigation and has told the police to focus on finding the killer, not focus on him. He seems like a real piece of shit to me. I hope he has a change of heart/mind and tells police anything he knows. But, I won't be surprised if he seeks gang retaliation instead.