Chicago Police arrest man for gang hit on 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee

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CHICAGO—The Chicago Police Department announced on Friday they have arrested a 27-year-old Chicago man for the brutal murder of 9-year-old boy who was lured into an alley and executed earlier this month.

The suspect was identified as Corey Morgan, of Chicago, by the police department. Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy announced a 10 a.m. news conference to formally announce the arrest and charges against Morgan.

Police said they believe Tyshawn was targeted because of his father's gang ties. The father, Pierre Stokes, previously told reporters he is not in a gang and does not believe his son's killing was retaliation. Stokes is currently on probation for a 2011 armed robbery conviction. He was arrested and charged in June 2014 with unlawful use of a weapon, but has pleaded not guilty to that charge.

"Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnessed in 35 years of policing," McCarthy told reporters earlier this month as police search for tips.

Police questioned Morgan two days after Tyshawn's killing but released him. He was arrested two weeks later in the Chicago suburbs on an unrelated weapons violation. Bond was set at $1 million, but Morgan was released after posting $100,000.

At his funeral, Tyshawn was recalled as a little boy who loved basketball, school and playing video games with his cousins.

Police found the basketball that Tyshawn was known to carry with him everywhere he went near his body.

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Glad they caught him

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What a low life to murder a child