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    Jury convicts second defendant in gang revenge killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee

    by Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune Oct 04, 2019 4 minutes

    CHICAGO - A Cook County jury has convicted Corey Morgan of orchestrating the gang revenge slaying of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee just weeks after Morgan's mother and brother were shot in 2015.

    The verdict comes a day after a separate jury convicted co-defendant Dwright Doty of acting as the gunman in Tyshawn's execution-style slaying, a crime that shocked a city hardened by seemingly unrelenting gang violence.

    One woman on the jury that convicted Morgan sobbed as she left Judge Thaddeus Wilson's courtroom. The eight-man, four-woman jury deliberated for about 10 hours over two days before finding Morgan guilty of first-degree murder.

    Prosecutors alleged that Morgan, 31, targeted the boy in November 2015 since his father was a high-ranking member of

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