Cook County prosecutors Wednesday placed on their ultimate witness within the trial of two males charged with the homicide of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, closing out 12 days of testimony with heart-rending pictures of the fourth-grader’s post-mortem.
Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Ponni Arunkumar spent a couple of half hour on the witness stand, reviewing the injuries suffered by Tyshawn within the 2015 taking pictures. The deadly gunshot struck the boy in the appropriate temple.
More chilling accidents have been smaller marks on Tyshawn’s face made by bullet that Arunkumar stated may need fragmented when it caught his thumb — almost severing it — as he tried to defend his face. Those wounds additionally confirmed flecks of gunpowder that indicated they’d been fired from just some toes away.
“One explanation [for the fragment wounds] could be the bullet went through the thumb and there was fragmentation of the bullet,” Arunkumar stated.
Jurors confirmed little seen response as Arunkumar pointed to pictures of Tyshawn on a monitor display screen. A bunch of highschool college students, who sat down simply after Arunkumar took the witness stand, additionally appeared emotionless. Lawyers for co-defendants Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan had no questions for the medical expert, and the protection is predicted to start their case Wednesday afternoon.
Prosecutors have stated Tyshawn was killed in an alley close to his grandmother’s home, after Boone-Doty lured him from a close-by South Side park. The motive for killing Tyshawn was revenge towards the boy’s father, Pierre Stokes, purportedly a frontrunner in a rival gang that was behind a taking pictures a number of weeks earlier that killed Morgan’s brother and wounded his mom.