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The suspected triggerman in the murder of a 9-year-old boy wanted to inflict even more pain and suffering on his young victim and other children, prosecutors revealed Tuesday.
Dwright Boone-Doty, 22, of Chicago, has been charged with first-degree murder in the November fatal shooting of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in the Gresham neighborhood.
Doty was denied bail Tuesday.
Police say Tyshawn was killed because his father, Pierre Stokes, was a ranking member of a rival gang.
Tyshawn's death was the result of a gang war between the Black Pstones and the Gangster Disciples. The feud came to head, prosecutors say, as result of the October 13 fatal shooting of Tracy Morgan, 25, the brother of Doty's co-defendant Corey Morgan, 27, who is also charged in Tyshawn's murder.
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said Corey Morgan stated that since his brother was killed and his mother was shot, he was going to kill "grandmas, mothers and children." The Pstones began going out daily, armed with guns, looking to get revenge, Alvarez said. The group first targeted Tyshawn's grandmother, Alvarez said. Doty said he also originally planned to kidnap Tyshawn and cut off fingers and ears, Alvarez said.
On Nov. 2, three men lured Tyshawn from a playgroundinto an alley near West 80th Street and South Damen Avenue in the city's Gresham neighborhood. The fourth grader was shot several times in the head. His basketball was found nearby.
Prosecutors said Boone-Doty pulled the trigger. He has been in police custody on an unrelated charge since November. He was charged Monday in Tyshawn's death.
Tyshawn was shot in the right temple and the bullet went through his left temple. He also was grazed in the back, right forearm and right hand.
Then according to the state's attorney, Doty bragged about it, describing how the boy suffered from the gunshots.
"'Shorty couldn't take it no more. Shorty couldn't take it no more,'" Alvarez said.