CHICAGO - Attorneys have made their closing arguments in the trial of one of two men charged with murder in the 2015 killing of a 9-year-old Chicago boy who was allegedly lured to his death by being promised a juice box.
Prosecutors asked jurors Thursday to convict Corey Morgan in the shooting death of Tyshawn Lee. They allege that Morgan and a fellow gang member accused of pulling the trigger, Dwright Boone-Doty, carried out the killing because they believed the boy’s father was in a gang that killed Morgan’s brother weeks earlier.
Morgan’s attorneys say he had nothing to do with the killing and that he was targeted by police because he was a gang member whose brother had recently been killed.
Attorneys still have to make closing arguments to a separate jury that will decide the fate of Boone-Doty.