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The getaway driver in the execution-style slaying of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Tuesday, just a week before the trial was to begin.

Kevin Edwards, 26, pleaded guilty in exchange for a sentence of 25 years in prison.

Edwards was charged with two other men after Tyshawn was lured into an alley in 2015 and shot to death near his home. His death became the latest example of Chicago’s brutal and entrenched cycle of gang violence and retaliation.

Edwards and the other two, Corey Morgan and Dwright Doty, targeted Tyshawn because his father was a member of a rival gang suspected of shooting Morgan’s brother, Assistant State’s Attorney Thomas Darman said in court Tuesday.

The group went looking for Tyshawn at Dawes Park, Darman said. “They all intended that harm was to befall Lee on that day,” the prosecutor said. “They all knew that he was 9 years old.”

Edwards waited nearby in a black Ford Edge while Doty walked with the boy into an alley and shot him in the head, Darman said. Edwards then drove them from the scene.

Edwards’ 25-year sentence is five years more than the mandatory minimum.

Upon release, Edwards will have to register for life as a violent offender, Judge Thaddeus Wilson noted. Edwards declined to speak on his own behalf before Wilson imposed the sentence.

Doty and Morgan are expected to select jurors for their trials next week.

The plea is a last-minute reversal for Edwards, who in recent weeks had rejected a similar plea deal. Edwards was the last to be arrested for Tyshawn’s death. He was picked up in May 2016, months after the slaying, in downstate Vermilion County.
 
"Jurors found Dwright Boone-Doty guilty of murder in the first degree for shooting the boy in the head after promising to buy him a treat. Boone-Doty led the boy into an alley and executed him in a gang hit that shocked the nation for its brutality.

Boone-Doty and another man, Corey Morgan, were tried before separate juries. Morgan's jury was still deliberating as of Thursday night.

A third man involved in the murder, Kevin Edwards, has already pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a 25-year prison sentence."

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A gunman has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for luring a rival gang member's nine-year-old son after luring him into an alley way with a juice box.

Dwright Boone-Doty, 26, shot Tyshawn Lee dead in 2015 in Chicago.

On Wednesday, he was sentenced to 90 years behind bars and his accomplice, 31-year-old Corey Morgan, was sentenced to 45 years.

Prosecutors said Morgan was the 'driving force' behind the murder but that Boone-Doty was the one who pulled the trigger.

They killed Tyshawn in a brutal act of revenge against his father, Pierre Stokes, who belonged to a rival gang which killed Morgan's 25-year-old brother and wounded his mother in another shooting.
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A Chicago father has been convicted of attempting to kill three people to avenge the slaying of his 9-year-old son who was lured from a playground into an alley with the promise of a juice box by rival gang members in 2015 and shot.
A jury deliberated several hours before finding Pierre Stokes, 33, guilty of attempted murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and a gun charge, according to the Chicago Tribune.

He was accused of shooting and wounding the girlfriend of one of the men responsible for his son's death and her two adult nephews in 2016.
Prosecutors have said the shooting was the result of a feud between the Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome faction of the Black P Stones and the Killa Ward faction of the Black Gangster Disciples, which Stokes allegedly belonged to.
According to prosecutors, Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan believed Stokes’ faction was responsible for an October 2015 shooting that killed Morgan’s 25-year-old brother and wounded his mother. Initially, the plan was to kill Tyshawn Lee's grandmother to send a message to Stokes before the boy was targeted, prosecutors said.

Morgan, Boone-Doty and Kevin Edwards were chargedin the boy's slaying. Morgan was convicted and sentenced to 65 years in prison. Doty was convicted and sentenced to 90 years, while Edwards, the getaway driver, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a 25 years in prison.
Prosecutors alleged during a 2016 bond hearing that Doty told other inmates that he shot Tyshawn and considered cutting off the boy's fingers and ears, the Tribune reported.
Stokes later approached Morgan's girlfriend, Robyn Matthews, at a South Side gas station and shot her and her nephews.

Assistant State’s Attorney Melanie Matias told the jury during closing arguments in Stokes’ trial that “vigilante justice is not justice.”
 
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