'Person of Interest' in 9-Year-Old's Slaying Freed on $1M Bail: Reports

Photo: Corey Morgan, 27, (left) has been identified as a person of interest in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. Morgan was picked up on an unrelated gun charge with Dwright Boone-Doty, 21, last week in Evergreen Park.

A man that police have termed person of interest in the street execution killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was released on $1 million bail for unrelated gun charges last Friday, reports said.

Corey Morgan, 27, was arrested in Evergreen Park with another man after they had left the Hilton Oak Lawn on Nov. 16. Morgan is facing a felony charge of possession of a firearm by a felon.

The man with Morgan, Dwright Boone-Doty, 21, was also charged with possession/possible use of a firearm. His bail, too, was set at $1 million. Boone-Doty remains in custody, according to Cook County Jail records.

Boone-Doty is out on parole from the Illinois Department of Corrections on a drug and weapons case.

Chicago police detectives received a tip that Morgan was in possession of guns while at the Oak Lawn hotel. Detectives claim they saw a gun tucked into Boone-Doty’s waistband as the two got into a car at the Hilton Oak Lawn, CBS 2 Chicago reported.

The men were picked up in Evergreen Park. Police said that Boone-Doty still had the gun tucked in his waistband. The second gun was found in a duffle bag allegedly seen carried by Morgan when they left the hotel, CBS 2 Chicago said.

Morgan and Boone-Doty appeared in bond court last Wednesday. Morgan was able to put up the required $100,000 bond and was released from Cook County Jail on Friday.

News reports quoted law enforcement sources saying that the $100,000 was supplied by Morgan’s girlfriend, from a settlement she was awarded in court-lawsuit against a hospital.

Police are said to be running tests on the two .40-caliber pistols found when searching the car that Morgan and Boone-Doty were driving.

Morgan was questioned by police in the fourth-grader’s murder on Nov. 4, but was released without being charged. Except for the felony gun charge, Morgan has not been charged in the boy’s death.

Police believe that Tyshawn was lured to an alley in the 8000 block of South Damen on Nov. 2 where he was shot to death. The boy was wounded in his thumb and suffered a graze wound in his back. The fatal shot was on the right side of Tyshawn’s head, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s autopsy reports.

Tyshawn’s death is believed tied to two warring factions of the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stones that have flared up in the Gresham neighborhood since the summer, in which his father, Pierre Stokes, may be involved. The boy’s father has denied that he is gang member.

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