Chicago police plea for help to solve 9-year-old's murder

Flanked by community activists, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy stood at the end of the Gresham alley on Chicago's South Side where 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was gunned down Monday and issued a plea for tips that will lead to an arrest in the child's death.

The boy was lured into a South Side alley and gunned down in a deadly tit-for-tat between rival gangs, said McCarthy, who singled out Tyshawn's father, Pierre Stokes, 25, as being unhelpful in the investigation.

McCarthy called the slaying "probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnessed in 35 years of policing." Standing alongside the Rev. Michael Pfleger, he said police need help from the community. The reward in the case stands at $35,000, and Pfleger offered to use his own money to relocate any witness out of state if necessary.

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