The boy, 83 pounds and 4-foot-8, was then lured into an alley by gang rivals of his father’s where he was shot in the head, police have said, revenge for an escalating gang feud that had resulted in at least two fatal shootings prior to Tyshawn’s slaying. The brutal killing of the boy launched protests, vigils, calls for gun control legislation and a reckoning for Chicago about how gang feuds escalated into the targeted killing of a 9-year-old boy on a sunny autumn day in 2015.
” A memorial in an alley where 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was shot and killed in the 8000 block of South Damen Avenue in November 2015. Lee, who was lured into the alley before being killed, was targeted because of his father's gang ties. After his son’s death, Stokes, allegedly a member of the Killa Ward faction of the Gangster Disciples, told the Tribune he felt guilty he wasn’t with his son the day he died. “To be honest, I feel bad,” he said. “I feel like it’s my fault.