GUILTY IL - Tyshawn Lee, 9, fatally shot in Chicago alley, 2 Nov 2015

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Expert: ‘Messy’ DNA links alleged gunman to Tyshawn Lee killing
For the first time in a criminal trial, DNA software used to identify DNA on basketball found next to 9-year-old’s body.

Sep 24, 2019

"When police found Tyshawn Lee’s body in a South Side alley, the fourth-grader’s prized basketball was just a few feet away. Tuesday, an expert in a controversial, cutting-edge DNA test said the 9-year-old’s ball carried a link to his killer.

In the fall of 2015, a witness told police she saw Dwright Boone-Doty dribble Tyshawn’s basketball while chatting with the boy in Dawes Park shortly before Tyshawn was killed. But swabs of the ball and from a car investigators believed Boone-Doty and his co-defendant, Corey Morgan, had driven to the park didn’t turn up any DNA that was usable for technicians at the State Police lab....

Testifying Tuesday, John Buckleton said he was reluctant to lead the testing in the Tyshawn Lee murder but did turn up “very strong support” that Boone-Doty’s DNA was on the ball and inside a black SUV found abandoned in the south suburbs that prosecutors have hinted had been wiped down with bleach...."

Expert: ‘Messy’ DNA links alleged gunman to Tyshawn Lee killing

 

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Chicago Tribune‏Verified account @chicagotribune 3h3 hours ago
A New Mexico man testified to buying the gun later used to kill 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. "I knew it probably wasn’t being used for something good."

Jurors hear talk of retaliation at trial into 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee’s killing: ‘Everybody must die. Grandmas, mamas, kids and all.’

 

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Chicago Breaking News‏ @ChicagoBreaking 4h4 hours ago
New Mexico man testifies to buying gun used to later kill 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee: ‘I knew it probably wasn’t being used for something good.’ https://trib.al/hvJejmy

New Mexico man testifies to buying gun used to later kill 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee: ‘I knew it probably wasn’t being used for something good.’

Sept 26, 2019

"Nearly two decades ago, Andre Williams says he struck up a friendship with Anthony Morgan while playing basketball at the courts at Dawes Park on Chicago’s South Side. The two remained in touch by Facebook after Williams moved to New Mexico and eventually struck up an illicit, long-distance business arrangement: Williams acted as a straw purchaser, buying guns for Morgan and shipping them to Chicago by mail...."

New Mexico man testifies to buying gun used to later kill 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee: ‘I knew it probably wasn’t being used for something good.’

 

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Chicago Sun-Times‏Verified account @Suntimes 3h3 hours ago
Andre Williams mailed at least eight guns to Chicago, including the one used to kill 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. “I didn’t know how serious of a situation it would become," he said.


Man who bought gun that killed Tyshawn Lee believed it wasn’t to be ‘used for something good’
Andre Williams bought guns in New Mexico and shipped them to alleged gang members in Chicago.

Sep 26, 2019

"...The seventh day of testimony in the trial featured key testimony against Corey Morgan from yet another childhood friend. Moesha Walker, the sister of former co-defendant Kevin Edwards, said that her brother and the Morgans were close friends and fellow members of the Bang Bang Gang/Terrordome faction of the Black P-Stones. The day after Tracey Morgan was killed in a gang shooting that also wounded Morgan’s mother, Walker said she listened as her brother talked to Morgan.

“Corey said his brother had got shot up in a car with his momma, and he like, ‘They killed my brother and shot my momma,” Walker said. “He said, ‘N—-as tweaked. Everybody must die. Grandmamas, mamas, babies and all.”..."

Man who bought gun that killed Tyshawn Lee believed it wasn’t to be ‘used for something good’

 

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In Tyshawn Lee trial, jurors hear recordings of accused shooter expressing no remorse for gunning down 9-year-old: ‘(There) ain’t no age. Period. Age 8 to 80.’

SEP 30, 2019

"...On Monday, as Doty’s trial in Tyshawn’s 2015 slaying stretched into its third week, jurors heard lengthy clips of the secretly recorded conversations. Doty — who had not yet been charged with the killing — repeatedly confesses in confident, strident tones....

Prosecutors say the recordings provide hard proof of Doty’s guilt. Doty’s defense attorneys assert that it amounts to nothing but empty bragging, with Doty trying to make himself seem tough in the chaotic environment of Cook County Jail...."

In Tyshawn Lee trial, jurors hear recordings of accused shooter expressing no remorse for gunning down 9-year-old: ‘(There) ain’t no age. Period. Age 8 to 80.’

 

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Chicago Tribune‏Verified account @chicagotribune 1h1 hour ago
Tyshawn Lee’s death stands out as one of the most brutal in recent Chicago history. Monday, jurors heard recordings of his accused killer expressing no remorse for gunning down the 9-year-old. https://trib.al/HplSeIH

 

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Jurors see autopsy photos of slain 9-year-old Chicago boy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

"CHICAGO — Prosecutors in the trial of two men charged with murder in the 2015 shooting death of a 9-year-old Chicago boy have rested their case after showing jurors autopsy photographs.

During the 12-day trial, prosecutors presented evidence that the two gang members charged with first-degree murder _ Corey Morgan and Dwright Boone-Doty _ plotted to kill fourth grader Tyshawn Lee because his father belonged to a rival gang they suspected of killing Morgan's brother weeks earlier.

The autopsy photos included ones of the fatal shot to the boy's head. And to remind jurors of the last helpless moments of Tyshawn's life, prosecutors showed jurors photos of a bullet wound to the boy's thumb, which they contend was struck when he tried to block the bullets.

Closing arguments are expected to begin Thursday."

Jurors see autopsy photos of slain 9-year-old Chicago boy
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Prosecution rests in Tyshawn Lee murder trial

October 2, 2019

Prosecution rests in Tyshawn Lee murder trial – Moose Gazette

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Day 11 of testimony in the Tyshawn Lee murder trial. State calls their final witness: Medical Examiner Ponni Arunkumar. Jurors watch as Arunkumar reviews autopsy photos: the 83-pound, 4'8" fourth grader on a metal slab; profiles showing the gunshot wounds to his head and back


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
The fatal wound was a gunshot to his right temple that exited on the left side of his head, doing ruinous damage to his brain. Another shot nearly amputated his thumb. Arunkumar suggests Tyshawn raised his hand to protect his face; powder marks indicate the shot was close range


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Jurors seemed largely impassive as the photos were put on a monitor in the courtroom. Several lowered their heads after a first glance. They've been good note takers, but none had their books open for this testimony.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
A group of about 25 high school-age kids, probably on a courthouse tour, came in after Dr. Arunkumar took the stand, and while their angle to see the screen was not good, they didn't have any reaction to the images.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Arunkumar also identifies up Tyshawn's jacket and the orange school polo he was wearing, both torn with bullet holes. "The blood has dried," she notes for the jury.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Lawyers for both Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan have no cross-examination for Arunkumar, so, with that, the state rests.

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
During a recess, Morgan's lawyer, Tom Breen, steps out in the gallery and tells the student group that he doesn't expect any action in the courtroom for a few hours.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Judge Wilson has asked the defense to do their motions for directed verdict. Typically a formality, defense will argue judge should acquit the defendants because the state hasn't proved their case.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
... and Wilson has ruled against both defense teams, so they will be starting their case this afternoon when we come back from lunch at 1:30.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Defense lawyers for Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan won't be putting on any witnesses or evidence, so the jury will come out, the defense will rest, and we'll all be back here tomorrow morning for closing arguments.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
There will be a couple of stipulations, which are evidence, of course.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Doty's lawyers have entered the video of two lineups featuring Doty, in which witnesses were unable to identify him, as well as a stipulation that GPS data from the getaway car never shows the vehicle at Doty's house or his mom's place.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Jury has left the room while Judge Thaddeus Wilson asks Doty if he wants to testify. Doty, who briefly fired his court-appointed lawyers and insisted he wanted to represent himself, says he will not take the stand.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
Morgan defense also entered evidence by way of stipulation—including the Bulls schedule for 2015-2016 and statement from a team official— that there was no Bulls game on Nov. 2, 2015, the day Tyshawn was shot. A witness said he watched game that day at house he shared with Morgan


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 Oct 2
And that's going to be it until closing arguments tomorrow. There are two juries hearing evidence against the two defendants. Morgan jury will go first, then Doty. The Sun-Times will stream live video from the courtroom.

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 18h18 hours ago
In the courtroom for closing arguments in the Tyshawn Lee murder trial. Catch up on @Suntimes coverage of the case here:

A timeline of the Tyshawn Lee murder trial


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 18h18 hours ago
Over the last three weeks, prosecutors have laid out a case that fourth-grader Tyshawn Lee was lured into a park near his grandmother's house by Dwright Boone-Doty, who is alleged to have shot the boy multiple times in a alley.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 18h18 hours ago
The killing, prosecutors have said, was carried out in retribution for the murder a few weeks earlier of Tracey Morgan, the brother of Boone-Doty's co-defendant, Corey Morgan. The same shooting also left Morgan's mother wounded.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 18h18 hours ago
Tyshawn was targeted because his father, Pierre Stokes, purportedly is a ranking member of a rival street gang the Morgans believed was behind Tracey Morgan's killing.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 18h18 hours ago
In the fall of 2015, Tyshawn's murder was big news. Children are all too often caught in the crossfire of Chicago's gang warfare, but the "code of the streets" dictated that innocent relatives of gang members were off-limits. Hundreds attended Tyshawn's funeral.

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 18h18 hours ago
The courtroom gallery today is only about half-full as we wait for them to bring in the jury— mostly reporters and cops and prosecutors involved in the case. For most of the trial, the courtroom has been all but empty.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 18h18 hours ago
Prosecutor Craig Engebretsen will deliver the closing against Corey Morgan for the state. He begins by conjuring the unseasonably warm November day when Tyshawn was killed.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 18h18 hours ago
"You can still get one of these sneaky warm days. If you're a kid, where are you going? Tyshawn, when he got that sneaky great Nov. day, he went home and kissed his grandma on the cheek and went out to the park to play some basketball."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Angebretsen said Morgan and Doty decided to "take advantage" of the nice weather to stalk Tyshawn. Standing in front of a map showing the GPS data taken from the alleged getaway vehicle, which traces the Ford SUV going from Morgan's house to Tyshawn's neighborhood, circling block


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
"Why are they going there? For revenge, because Corey Morgan's brother had been killed by rival gang members and they were going there to settle the score."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Angebretsen describes Doty meeting Tyshawn on the basketball court, chatting the boy up and luring him to an alley where he shot the 9 y/o. "Tyshawn, he sees it coming. He gets a hand up. He can't do anything, but he tries. It’s a reflex. Dwright Doty guns him down."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Outlining the evidence against Morgan, ASA Engebretsen starts with witness identifications. He plays video of a teen who was in Dawes Park IDing Morgan's mugshot. The teen said he saw Morgan at the basketball court, noticed a gun in his pocket.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Doty, Morgan and Kevin Edwards, a co-defendant who pleaded guilty a few weeks before the start of the trial, were taken into custody on an unrelated gun charge, and were placed in live lineups, as well as photo arrays. Three witnesses identified Morgan as being at Dawes Park


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Important to note: there were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, just witnesses who saw the three co-defendants at Dawes Park around the time of the shooting, as well as several who saw the black Ford Edge they were driving

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Witnesses, including Edwards sister, said the three co-defendants were close friends. Edwards brother, a cop who testified for the prosecution. Also inadvertently tied Edwards to the Ford SUV: Edwards left it parked blocking the driveway— he called the cops and had him ticketed.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Engebretsen is outlining the gang war that was playing out in Auburn Gresham in the weeks before Tyshawn's murder, which had claimed Corey Morgan's brother— but Morgan's mother getting hit in the same shooting was the act that made Tyshawn a target


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Morgan allegedly said that he would target "mamas, grandmas, kids and all" for revenge. Defense lawyers pointed out that original detectives' notes didn't mention he said "kids," just mamas and grandmas. Either way, the statement still is chilling, he said.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
"Either way that statement was used… we get the point. The facts tell us the point: Family was on the table. Family was going to be targeted to because of what they did. Tyshawn was targeted because of his family. What else could it be? Why else would you murder a 9-year-old?"


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Morgan family also tied to the murder weapon: Corey's older brother, Anthony, bought the guns through a straw buyer in New Mexico, along with several other guns. Another gun, purchased the same day as the .40-cal that killed Tyshawn, was found on Corey Morgan when he was arrested


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
The internet search history on Morgan's cellphone— registered to a relative– showed that hours after the killing he was looking at the Facebook pages for Tyshawn's father, Pierre Stokes, as well as Tyshawn's mom. Also searched news stories about the shooting.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
"The body hadn’t even made it to the morgue, and he’s already looking at Pierre Stokes’ Facebook page. He wants to know, are they hurting? Are they hurting like I hurt?"


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Prosecutors said Ford SUV smelled like bleach, implying that it was wiped down. Doty's DNA still was found inside, he suggests, because he dumped car in Dolton. "You can’t clean it and then have... Doty drive it to the dump. They're presumed innocent, not presumed smart."

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Engebretsen said cell tower data showed Morgan was likely trailing Doty to pick him up after dumping the car in Dolton.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Engebretsen now tackling the accountability law: Morgan wasn't the shooter, but is still accountable for Tyshawn's murder. He notes Morgan's lawyer suggested that the killer was "singularly evil," and acted alone.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
"Ladies and gentlemen, if there has ever been a case with more evil to spread around, its this one," he said, adding later. "No one person has a monopoly on this evil. These people particpated in this together. They validated the plan."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
Now outlining the law on kidnapping, another, and very serious charge Morgan and Doty are facing. Luring Tyshawn into the alley, while armed with a gun, qualifies under the law.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
There are also counts that could tack decades onto a potential sentence: Tyshawn was under 12, and was killed during a kidnapping, and was killed with a firearm.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
The big finish: "Tyshawn Lee's life is over. It was way too short. And although his live may be over, his story isn't. His ending is yet to be written. Its an ending you get to write. It can never be a happy ending for Tyshawn Lee, but it can be a just one."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
So, we're on a break before Morgan's lawyers will make their closing arguments. A reminder: this was a double-jury trial, so there will be separate closings for his co-defendant, alleged trigger man Dwright Doty.

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 17h17 hours ago
State's close for Doty will likely include a lot of the same evidence, but Doty's jurors also heard recordings of Doty bragging about the killing to a fellow inmate at the Cook County jail. Doty's jury did not hear testimony about Morgan vowing to kill "mamas, grandmas, kids"


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
We're on a break between the state's closing argument and the defense case. Cameras will be dark until the jury returns to the courtroom. Morgan's defense team includes two of the top lawyers in Chicago, Tom Breen and Todd Pugh. A Breen closing is not to be missed.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
A qualifier: I do not know for certain that Breen will do the closing-- he did the opening, and Todd Pugh is no slouch.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Looks like it will be Todd Pugh, who is no slouch. Breen did the opening.

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Todd Pugh steps up to deliver the closing argument for Corey Morgan, begins by describing the case against Morgan as "pivot"— the state didn't prove that Morgan aided in the murder, or was identified at the scene.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Detectives locked in on the Morgans, Corey and Anthony, and proceeded to "break the rules" to steer the evidence to them, comparing them to cyclist Lance Armstrong. "When you don’t follow the rules you don’t get the spoils of victory," Pugh said.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Pugh is breaking down the eyewitness identifications, which comprise a big part of the evidence against his client (cellphone data and GPS info showing the getaway car coming and going from his house also are tough for Morgan).


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
One key witness was Jaylen Anderson, who identified all three defendants in the case in a photo lineup— but, Pugh points out Anderson testified he'd been shown pics of possible suspects before he made the ID that detectives taped.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Tape of Anderson confidently and quickly picking out the three defendants' mugshots was played during the state's closing, but Pugh says the "dress rehearsal had already occurred."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Pugh has an image of the "six-pack" from the first mugshot array (6 pictures, including Morgan) showing Morgan and five "fillers." Only three of the six— one of them Morgan— had shoulder-length dreadlocks, which was the main descriptor for the suspects.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
In mulitple lineups, there were only five people in the lineup, Morgan and four fillers. CPD policy, Pugh notes, requires six people for a lineup.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Morgan also was wearing a bright orange sweatshirt, unlike the fillers in the lineup, and was put in the same position in each lineup. His mugshot also was put in the same spot in the photo arrays— all deviations from CPD policy for witness identifications.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
One witness didn't pick Morgan's mugshot in a photo array, but did later pick him out in a live lineup the next day. "Of course she picked out Corey Morgan," Pugh said. "Because she had been shown a picture of him the day before."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Pugh points to pressure on detectives to close case: "I don’t blame them. This was a horrific crime and they wanted to solve it, and wanted to solve it quickly. This wasn’t a conspiracy. Corey morgan as a suspect made sense... his brother was murdered. His mother was shot."

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Pugh has a map of the area around Dawes Park, showing the park and Ralph Ellison H.S., where all the witness were students, as he begins to lay out a timeline of the afternoon Tyshawn was killed.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 16h16 hours ago
Pugh estimates that if school let out at Ellison at 3:30 p.m., all the kids in the park wouldn't have arrived until at least 3:45. Data from the SUV nav system located the car on Ashland at 3:51, a good 6 minutes away from the park.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
Pugh hitting hard on witness Moesha Walker, the sister of co-defendant Kevin Edwards, who testified that after Morgan's brother was killed, he said in front of her that he intended to kill "mamas, grandmas, kids and all."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
Walker said the day after Morgan's brother was killed (and mom wounded in same shooting) he was at her house, asked to borrow her phone. Cops/FBI never verified if the phone was used around the time frame she claimed.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
Pugh points out data from SUV also showed 16 devices connected to vehicle's computer system, including two that synced on Nov. 2. "All they have to do is subpoena to Verizon and find out who was in that car... Morgan is already charged. They don't want any more evidence."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
Pugh closes with somewhat emotional appeal, asking jurors to look critically at the evidence despite fact that Morgan is a "throwaway person in the eyes of police." "You don’t’ have to like Morgan... what he stood for or where he came from or the friends he hung out with."

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
Patrick Waller steps up for rebuttal, starting with a defense of the witness identifications, and the police protocols.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
"It’s not a referendum on the police investigation. The question is: Is he responsible for the execution of a 9-year-old."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
Waller points out that murder weapon was linked to Morgan's brother, and a gun Morgan had on him when he was arrested "Of all the guns that could possibly have... the other gun that was bought on the very same day in a pawnshop in NM as the murder weapon."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
Waller gives a call back to Pugh's closing: "(Morgan) a gang member, a throwaway person from society? "You know who was thrown away by this defendant and his compatriots? Whose 9-year-old body was left in the alley? Tyshawn Lee. His life was thrown away."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
That's it for the rebuttal. Judge Thaddeus Wilson is giving the witnesses their instructions. The courtroom gallery largely empties— this is pretty dull stuff— leaving a half-dozen relatives, us reporters and a handful of spectators.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
Again, this trial was conducted in front of dual juries one for Morgan and one for alleged gunman Dwright Boone-Doty. Closings in Doty's case will next. Not sure if there will be a break.

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
To recap, the case against Morgan is more circumstantial than against co-defendant Doty. His brother was killed by members of a gang that included Tyshawn's father, and before the killing, a witness testified he said he would kill "mamas, grandmas, kids and all."

Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 14h14 hours ago
GPS data from an SUV used in the killing showed the vehicle traveled from his house to the area around Dawes Park around the time Tyshawn was killed. Cellphone data tracks him making the same trip.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
The murder weapon was purchased by another of Morgan's brothers. When Morgan was arrested, he was carrying another gun that was purchased on the same day from the same New Mexico pawshop by the same straw buyer.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 15h15 hours ago
One witness testified he saw Morgan at the basketball court in Dawes Park, and noticed he was carrying a gun, the day Tyshawn was shot.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 14h14 hours ago
Morgan is charged with first-degree murder for the shooting, even though his co-defendant, Dwright Doty, is alleged to be the shooter.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 14h14 hours ago
Another co-defendant, Kevin Edwards, pleaded guilty before the trial and got a 25-year sentence. Edwards' sister testified that she heard Morgan threatening to kill "mamas, grandmas, kids and all."

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
After a break following the conclusion of the closing arguments in Corey Morgan's case, we are getting ready to begin closings for alleged gunman Dwright Boone-Doty.

Judge hearing some motions, but cameras will start rolling once jury enters the box.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
Doty's lawyer, Public Defender Danita Ivory, asked the judge to send the jury home and allow them to do closings first thing tomorrow, noting jurors arrived at 8:30 a.m. and have been sitting around, won't start deliberations until after 5 p.m. Judge Wilson denies the motion.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
Another of his lawyers, Michael Buresh, asks the judge to bar the state from saying that DNA "matched" Doty, citing the arguments they just heard in Morgan's closing. Judge Wilson denies.

 

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Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
Patrick Waller starts off for the state, leading with basically the same schtick about the unseasonably warm weather on Nov. 2, 2015, the day Tyshawn was killed.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
Waller's fellow prosecutor started with a slightly different version of the same spiel. Waller did the rebuttal for Corey Morgan.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
Waller has added some visuals. Projected behind him is a picture of Tyshawn in his school polo shirt, smiling at the camera; then, a picture of the boy in the alley.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
"Doty executed Tyshwan Lee. That word 'execution,' it almost doesn't do justice to what happened. You got to see what happened to Tyshawn. Tyshawn Lee in that alley he saw it coming. The last thing he saw was this guy pulling out that gun."


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
Waller's argument is sure to include some new material: Doty was recorded by a jail informant, who taped him boasting about killing Tyshawn.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
Waller is playing some of those tapes right now-- it's all but unintelligible to me what they're saying on the recording, but Waller has a transcript on the monitor. Sorry, folks.


Andy Grimm‏Verified account @agrimm34 13h13 hours ago
The courtroom gallery is pretty much empty, save for reporters. There are some family members here, but I haven't noticed Tyshawn's mother, Karla Lee, in the gallery for any of the trial. Today is being livestreamed, so it could be she's watching from State's Attorney's offices.