Father Of Slain 9-Year-Old Tyshawn Lee Charged With Shooting 3 People

By Mae Rice in News on Mar 14, 2016 4:18PM

Pierre Stokes, 25, has been charged in a shooting that injured three (photo via Chicago Police Department)

The father of Tyshawn Lee, a nine-year-old who was fatally shot in November, has been charged with shooting three people last week in the Gresham area, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office announced Sunday.

Pierre Stokes, 25, was arrested on Friday and charged with three felony counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.

The shooting took place in the 7900 block of South Ashland on March 8 at 5:40 p.m. A 31-year-old man was shot in the left forearm, and a 30-year-old man was shot in the right arm. A 29-year-old woman also suffered a graze-wound to the face, though unlike the other two victims, she refused medical treatment, according to authorities.

The shooting occurred on the same day that police charged Dwight Boone-Doty with killing Lee and 19-year-old Brianna Jenkins in an ongoing gang conflict in the area.

It also comes after police alleged that Lee was killed because of his father’s gang ties, which made Lee a target in ongoing violence between two Chicago gangs: the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stones. Stokes is allegedly a part of Gangster Disciples' Killa Ward faction; Boone-Doty is a "known member" of the Black P Stones, according to Ebony.