Tyshawn Lee
Chicago’s BBG gang is being named by locals as the set that
murdered 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, in retaliation for his father’s
alleged involvement in the killing of two adult gang members and
wounding one of their mothers. Tyshawn was lured to an alleyway
and shot in the head and chest execution style.
In a similar incident in 2008, the 7-year-old nephew,
29-year-old brother and 57-year-old mother of singer Jennifer
Hudson were brutally shot to death (in the head) by Chicago gang
member, William Balfour (who joined a gang in his teens, began
selling drugs and engaging in other acts of violence). It’s very
alarming that children are being killed by gangs with no regard
for their age or innocence.
Tyshawn's dad Pierre Stokes
The federal government needs to do more regarding Chicago’s
gang problem, as it has surpassed that of Los Angeles, where
such sets originated with the Bloods and the Crips. The U.S.
government needs a dedicated anti-gang violence unit in Chicago,
as citizens are afraid to walk in their neighborhoods for fear
of being assaulted or killed. The U.S. government also needs a
dedicated anti-terrorism unit in Michigan.
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11.10.151:08 AM ET - The Monsters Who Executed a Chicago
Fourth-Grader. One gang member took a bullet to the gut. Next a
rival’s female friend was shot in the head and killed. Then,
somehow, the violence spread to a 9-year-old holding a
basketball. Chicago police say 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was lured
into the alley and executed as he returned from school.
His uncle, Christopher Smith, says Tyshawn had already come
home to his grandmother’s house and then taken his basketball
into the alley, where there is a hoop over a garage. A pair of
gunmen then appeared. “They been doing their homework on him,”
the uncle says. The boy’s father, Pierre Stokes—known as Woodie
and also as Wooh Gotti—is said to be a member of the New Money
Renegade faction of the Killaward gang, which is itself a
faction of the much larger Gangster Disciples gang.
New Money is said to be in a two-year war with the nearby
Bang Bang Gang (BBG), a faction of the Terror Dome gang, which
is itself a faction of the much bigger Black P Stone Nation
gang. The more recent fatalities include BBG member Tracey
Morgan, known as T-Time. He had a brother with Killaward, but
with the Kutthroat faction. That apparently earned him no
special consideration from the New Money faction of Killaward.
Never mind your blood ties. Faction affiliation—and therefore
life and death—is decided by what block you happen to be raised
on. BBG was BBG. New Money was New Money. “BBG and New Money,
that’s the war right now,” Morgan’s brother told The Daily
Beast. Pierre Stokes, father of 9-year-old shooting victim
Tyshawn Lee, speaks to reporters in Chicago November 5, 2015.
Lee was targeted by a gang, lured to an alley and shot dead
earlier this week in what police on Thursday called a new low in
Chicago's gang violence.
On the night of Oct. 13, Morgan’s mother had just picked him
up from a parolee “call-in,” where police and federal officials
join with social services providers in offering gang members
help if they renounce violence, and misery if they do not. The
program has had considerable success, but there would be no
determining its ultimate effect on Morgan. He and his mother
were on their way back to his home turf when gunfire erupted
from another car. He suffered a fatal wound to his abdomen. His
mother was shot in the arm, but she seemed to forget her wound
as she screamed, “My son is dying! My son is dying!”
Five days later, a New Money associate was wounded as he
drove with a 19-year-old named Brianna Jenkins. The young woman
was hit in the head and killed. But the police believe that BBG
remained thirsty for more blood. And BBG could have found any
number of targets on New Money’s home turf at West 80th Street
and Marshfield Avenue. “That’s all anybody got out there,” Smith
said. “The more shells, the merrier.” “We be out here every
day,” Tyshawn’s uncle, Smith, later noted on Twitter.
The problem for BBG was that those New Money targets shoot
back. BBG was apparently anxious not to suffer any further
losses. Little Tyshawn was not going to be packing anything more
deadly than the basketball he always toted to Scott Joplin
Elementary School. And, since he lived with his maternal
grandmother in BBG territory, BBG would not have to fret about
encountering rival gunmen. “Yall super scary ass scared to come
on 80th Marshfield,” Tyshawn’s uncle later remarked on Twitter.
“Grown clown a** n***as from bbg chassed dat lil boy down da
alley and killed him.”...
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