Two Chicago gang members have been sentenced to a combined 155 years in prison for the heinous execution of a 9-year-old boy four years ago.
The gunman Dwright Doty, 26, was sentenced on Wednesday to 90 years in prison for executing fourth-grader Tyshawn Lee, the son of a rival, who was lured into an alleyway with the promise of a juice box in November 2015.
The other man Corey Morgan, 31, who earlier turned down a plea deal of 25 years for planning the hit, was given a 65-year prison term after also being convicted of first-degree murder in Leighton Criminal Court.
According to the NY Post, both men must serve their entire sentences and will likely die in prison.
Tyshawn Lee was still in his school uniform at a playground in the city’s South Side when Doty befriended him and lured the child to an alley before blasting him several times at close range.
According to trial testimony, seven .40-caliber shells were found by the boy’s body, along with his basketball that he carried everywhere. His autopsy showed he had tried to shield himself with his hands before a bullet struck his head.
“You preyed on Tyshawn, you lied to Tyshawn, you lured Tyshawn and then you murdered Tyshawn,” his grandmother and great-grandmother said in a statement read in court.
New DNA analysis software that has never before been used as evidence in an Illinois criminal case helped to link Doty to the basketball found near Tyshawn’s body. Doty was also captured on undercover recordings bragging to another inmate in Cook County Jail about the gang-related killing.
