CHICAGO — The Cook County Jail inmate charged with shooting 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee laughed as he described luring the boy from a playlot and shooting him, prosecutors alleged Tuesday.
Dwright Boone-Doty was secretly recorded by another inmate talking about the coldblooded killing, law enforcement sources said. Prosecutors said Boone-Doty was out to avenge an earlier killing and shooting in a long-running gang war.
Boone-Doty told the other inmate that he originally planned to kidnap and torture the child by cutting off his fingers and ears, said Assistant State’s Attorney George Canellis Jr. He also conducted surveillance on Tyshawn’s grandmother so he could kill her and draw out rival gang members, he said.
Boone-Doty lured Tyshawn out of a playlot by asking him if he wanted to go to the store, according to Canellis. When the boy said he had no money, Boone-Doty said he would buy him whatever he wanted, the prosecutor said.
Canellis said Boone-Doty laughed as he described to the other inmate how he shot Tyshawn in the head.
“Shorty, he couldn’t take it no more,” Boone-Doty allegedly said.
Tyshawn’s mother left the courtroom before the bond hearing began at the Leighton Criminal Court Building and could be heard screaming outside.
A judge ordered Boone-Doty held without bail for the slayings of Tyshawn and a 19-year-old woman weeks earlier.
Boone-Doty appeared in a packed courtroom in an orange jumpsuit with his hands and legs in shackles surrounded by five sheriff’s deputies and a sheriff’s supervisor.
The recordings helped lead to first-degree murder charges against Boone-Doty for his alleged roles in the killing of Tyshawn and the Oct. 18 killing of 19-year-old Brianna Jenkins, the sources said.
Authorities allege that Boone-Doty, 22, was the gunman in Tyshawn’s slaying.
The informant told authorities that Boone-Doty, in jail after his arrest in November on unrelated gun charges, had talked to him about killing the 9-year-old, the sources said.
Chicago police detectives then obtained a court order for the informant to wear a wire and record Boone-Doty, the sources said. The recordings captured him implicating himself in both killings, according to the sources. The FBI also assisted in the undercover operation, sources said.
Police have said Tyshawn was targeted in early November because of his father’s gang ties and a series of shootings between two rival gangs in the Auburn Gresham community.