Chicago police are saying 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee’s murder may have been retaliation for recent acts of violence between two sets of gangs in the city’s South Side, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Police are reportedly looking into whether Tyshawn father’s alleged role in a gang rivalry that resulted in at least two recent slayings and the wounding of a reputed gang member’s mother led to his son’s demise.
Tyshawn’s father, Pierre Stokes, 25, spoke with the Tribune and denied anyone would have a motive to kill him and that, if someone did, there was no reason to take it out on his son because he’s out in the neighborhood all the time.
“I’m not hard to find,” he said.
Stokes is not too pleased police being more focused on him and not finding the killer.
“They’re more worried about me. Why are you worried about me, not the killer?” he told the Tribune outside of his home in the Auburn-Gresham community. “I’m not the killer. Worry about the killer.”
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