Killer told boy, 9, he’d give him some juice then lured him into an alleyway and murdered him
A killer was convicted of luring a nine year-old boy into an alleyway with the promise of some juice before brutally murdering the youngster.
Dwright Boone-Doty, 22, was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday, almost four years after the November 2015 murder of Tyshawn Lee.
Boone-Doty, of Chicago, befriended Tyshawn at a park the youngster went to play at after school.
He then picked up a basketball owned by Tyshawn – who was wearing his school uniform at the time – and asked him to follow him into an alley, where he claimed he had juice.
Once in the alleyway, Boone-Doty produced a .40-caliber handgun and blasted multuple bullets into Tyshawn’s head and hands at close range.
The little boy was killed because Boone-Doty believed his dad belonged to a rival gang he blamed for killing a friend’s brother a month earlier.
That friend – Corey Morgan – was watching from a nearby SUV as Tyshawn was killed. Jurors convicted him of Tyshawn’s murder on Friday afternoon.
A third accomplice, Kevin Edwards, who acted as getaway driver, admitted first-degree murder before the trial, and was jailed for 25 years.
Addressing jurors before they retired to consider their verdict, prosecutor Craig Ingleford said: ‘Tyshawn Lee’s life is over, way too short. Although his life is over, his story isn’t.
‘It’s an ending you get to write. It will never be a happy ending, but it can be a just one.’
Boone-Doty was caught after bragging to a prison cellmate about killing Tyshawn.
His DNA was also recovered from the basketball he’d used to lure Tyshawn into the alley where the little boy was killed.
That conversation was secretly recorded, with Boone-Doty then claiming that he’d been lying in an attempt to look tough.