Chicago: Police are looking into whether a nine-year-old boy was killed as retaliation because of an older relative's involvement in a gang rivalry that has led to at least two killings on Chicago's south side, law enforcement sources told the Chicago Tribune. Tyshawn Lee was fatally shot several times Monday afternoon after an altercation with a group in an alley in the Auburn-Gresham neighbourhood, police said. He was just doors away from his own home and his grandmother's house, where he had been headed. Hours after the shooting, Chief of Detectives Dean Andrews said he could not rule out that the boy had been targeted. Law enforcement sources said Tuesday that the boy may be the latest...
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