In the latest in a series of retaliatory shootings amid a South Side gang war, the father of Tyshawn Lee has been charged with shooting the girlfriend of one of the men held in the killing of his 9-year-old son, authorities said Sunday. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the Cook County state's attorney's office confirmed that Pierre Stokes, 25, was charged with three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in the shooting of a woman and two men at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 7900 block of South Ashland Avenue. 
 
 Law enforcement sources identified the woman as the girlfriend of Corey Morgan, who is in custody awaiting trial in Tyshawn's killing. About three weeks before Tyshawn was lured from a Dawes Park play lot and executed, Morgan's brother was killed and mother wounded as part of a long-running gang feud, police have said. 
 
 In the latest shooting, Morgan's girlfriend suffered a graze wound, while the two men were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with non-life-threatening injuries. 
 
 A statement issued by police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the latest shooting shows the challenge confronting police in dealing with the rampant gang violence. 
 
 "Mr. Stokes, who was involved in a gang lifestyle, ultimately suffered an unspeakable loss with the calculated execution of his son," the statement said. "Despite this, he continued to engage in the same gang activity that started this initial cycle of violence. 
 
 "CPD will continue our efforts to disrupt gang activity in Chicago and at the same time work with our community partners through our gang call-ins to try and urge gang members to see the casualties of that lifestyle and offer alternatives like job placement, training and education options," the statement said. 
 
 Stokes allegedly shot Morgan's girlfriend and the two others on the same day that Cook County prosecutors earlier revealed new details in court about Tyshawn's execution-style killing, including allegations that the gunman had considered torturing the fourth-grader by cutting off his fingers and ears. 
 
 Dwright Boone-Doty had been ordered on Tuesday to be held without bail in the killing of Stokes' son following the filing of charges against him. He is the second individual to be charged in the shocking killing — Morgan had been taken into custody shortly after the boy's Nov. 2 death. Prosecutors have implicated Boone-Doty as the gunman who shot Tyshawn. 
 
 Chicago police believe Tyshawn was killed because of his father's alleged ties to the Killa Ward faction of the Gangster Disciples. That faction has been in a long-running and bloody gang war with the Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome faction of the Black P Stones in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, police have said. 
 
 Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez speaks to reporters after bail was denied for Pierre Stokes, the father of slain 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. Prosecutors say Stokes shot three people as part of the same ongoing gang conflict that also led to his son's slaying. March 14, 2016. (Jeremy Gorner / Kasondra Van Treeck / Chicago Tribune) Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez speaks to reporters after bail was denied for Pierre Stokes, the father of slain 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee. Prosecutors say Stokes shot three people as part of the same ongoing gang conflict that also led to his son's slaying. March 14, 2016. (Jeremy Gorner / Kasondra Van Treeck / Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS 
 
 Police are investigating if the rivalry has led to as many as 15 shootings, including at least five homicides, since 2011, according to law enforcement sources. 
 
 Police had taken Stokes into custody Friday for questioning after earlier issuing an investigative alert authorizing officers to arrest him, the sources said. 
 
 Sources have said that a Cook County Jail inmate secretly recorded Boone-Doty admitting his involvement in Tyshawn's killing while he was locked up on unrelated gun charges. 
 
 In addition to his alleged role in Tyshawn's killing, Boone-Doty was charged in an Oct. 18 shooting in which 19-year-old Brianna Jenkins was killed and a reputed Killa Ward member wounded as the two sat in a car in Auburn Gresham. 
 
 The gang feud had escalated significantly five days earlier when Corey Morgan's brother, Tracey, who was also a reputed Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome member, was shot and killed while leaving a mandatory parolee meeting with Chicago police on the South Side. The Morgans' mother, who was in the car with her son, was wounded. 
 
 This breach of unwritten gang protocol — the wounding of a mother — drew a fiery response. Corey Morgan was heard to say that he was targeting "grandmas, mamas, kids and all" for shootings, prosecutors have alleged. 
 
 Morgan, Boone-Doty and a third suspect took to the streets daily to make good on that promise, prosecutors said last week. At one point, Boone-Doty conducted surveillance on Tyshawn's grandmother with plans to kill her in order to draw out rival gang members, prosecutors alleged. 
 
 It was during this time that those three allegedly saw Tyshawn with his father, according to a law enforcement source. 
 
 On the afternoon of Oct. 18, five days after Tracey Morgan was killed, Boone-Doty was driving near 78th and Honore streets when he spotted a rival gang member sitting in a car, according to prosecutors. Boone-Doty exited his car, walked up to the rival's vehicle and opened fire at the rival and Jenkins, who was sitting beside him, prosecutors said. 
 
 Boone-Doty said he shot Jenkins "because she started screaming," prosecutors said. 
 
 Police have linked a gun recovered from Boone-Doty to Jenkins' killing, prosecutors said. 
 
 Their plan for revenge did not end there, the charges alleged. On the afternoon of Nov. 2, they spotted Tyshawn playing basketball in Dawes Park, prosecutors said. 
 
 Boone-Doty lured Tyshawn out of a play lot by asking him if he wanted to go to the store, according to prosecutors. When the boy said he had no money, Boone-Doty said he would buy him whatever he wanted, prosecutors said. 
 
 Tyshawn, a fourth-grader at Joplin Elementary School, was lured to the alley in the 8000 block of South Damen Avenue and shot repeatedly. A basketball that he always carried with him was found nearby. 
 
 Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Kevin Edwards, the third suspect in Tyshawn's killing. He is believed to be out of state, according to sources. 
 
 In an interview with the Tribune shortly after his son's slaying, Stokes said he believed his son had been targeted but denied that anyone had reason to kill the boy in order to retaliate against him. 
 
 Police say Pierre Stokes, the father of slain 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, shot three people, including the girlfriend of one of the men in custody for the shooting death of his son. March 13, 2016. (CBS Chicago) Police say Pierre Stokes, the father of slain 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, shot three people, including the girlfriend of one of the men in custody for the shooting death of his son. March 13, 2016. (CBS Chicago) SEE MORE VIDEOS 
 
 But if anyone had a motive to kill him, Stokes said, there was no reason to take it out on his son because he's out in public in the neighborhood all the time. If anyone wanted to harm him, they could find the opportunity, he said. 
 
 "I'm not hard to find," Stokes said. 
 
 Stokes did not talk specifically about whether he was a gang member but said he disagreed with what police have said about him. He also expressed frustration with Chicago police, saying investigators seemed more interested in him than in finding who fatally shot Tyshawn. 
 
 "They're more worried about me. Why are you worried about me, not the killer?" Stokes said at the time. "I'm not the killer. Worry about the killer." 

 Father of slain boy ordered held without bail in shooting case 
 
 The father of slain 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was ordered held without bail Monday after he was charged with shooting three people in the Gresham neighborhood, including the girlfriend of one of the men charged in the murder of his son. 
 
 In the weeks after his son’s murder, authorities said Pierre Stokes did little to help investigators identify the killers, even though police said the boy was lured into an alley and shot by men who targeted the boy because Stokes was a high-ranking member of a band of Gangster Disciples. 
 
 The fourth-grader’s killing was the most brazen in a string of violent clashes between members of the Disciples and the Black P Stones stretching over months. Last Tuesday, with two of the three men allegedly involved in Tyshawn’s shooting behind bars and the third on the lam, prosecutors say Stokes opened fire on the girlfriend of a man who allegedly stalked Tyshawn, and wounded her and two men who were with her. 
 
 Stokes faces three counts of attempted murder and for violating conditions of his bond on a prior, unrelated gun charge. 
 
 “We have already lost a child. We have already had how many other murders associated with this war?” State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said outside the courtroom Monday. “Now three more people shot. So it needs to end.” 
 
 Stokes, 25, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, shook his head repeatedly as Assistant State’s Attorney George Canellis described how Stokes fired on the woman, Robin Matthews, and her nephews, Antwan and Kevin Davis, as they rushed up to a Shell station on 79th Street, where they said Stokes was scuffling with another of their cousins. 
 
 “The defendant [Stokes] pulled out a gun,” Canellis told Judge Laura Sullivan. “He said ‘I’m going to kill you, bitch’ . . . and he started shooting.” 
 
 Canellis said Stokes fired four to five shots as the Davises and Matthews fled. Matthews’ cheek was grazed and shots struck Antoine Davis twice in the shoulder and Kevin in the arm and thigh. Surveillance cameras showed Stokes at the gas station, and running away with a gun, but investigators do not have video of the shooting, Canellis said. 
 
 Outside the courthouse, Stokes’ girlfriend, Naisha Frazier, said Stokes was innocent and was not active in gangs, claiming Matthews had been trying to goad Stokes since Corey Morgan was arrested in connection with Tyshawn’s murder. 
 
 “Robin, she came up there to fight,” Frazier said. “I feel like this was a setup. After he lost his son, they wanted him in jail, because they feel like he had something to do with . . . another murder.” 
 
 Prosecutors say Morgan, 27, and Kevin Edwards, 22, were riding with Dwright Boone-Doty in a black SUV when they spotted Tyshawn playing at Dawes Park on Nov. 2, 2015. Boone-Doty was charged last week as the triggerman in Tyshawn’s killing. He allegedly bragged to a jailhouse informant that the three men had stalked Tyshawn and his grandmother for days, and that they planned to kidnap him and cut off his ears and fingers, before killing him. 
 
 Three weeks earlier, Morgan’s brother, Tracey Morgan, was gunned down outside a meeting of recent parolees hosted by Chicago Police on the South Side. Tracey Morgan was killed as he sat in a car with his mother, who was wounded by gunfire. The shooting, prosecutors have said, prompted Corey Morgan to suspend the rules of gang warfare and target non-gang members. 
 
 Prosecutors say Killa Ward member Boone-Doty shot and killed 19-year-old Brianna Jenkins as she sat in a car with her boyfriend, a P Stones member, who was wounded by gunfire. 
 
 Prosecutors claim that Boone-Doty told the informant he lured the boy away from Dawes Park and into an alley and shot him several times at close range. 
 
 In interviews with reporters since his son was killed, Stokes has bristled at police statements about his gang ties and said officers have harassed him and his friends. At a November press conference held in front of the alley where Tyshawn’s body was found, then-police Supt. Garry McCarthy singled Stokes out for being unhelpful to investigators as they tried to develop suspects in the killing. 
 
 Stokes arrived at that press conference moments after McCarthy left and spoke briefly with police brass. A day earlier, police had raided Stokes’ girlfriend’s apartment, bearing a warrant that listed Stokes as the target of an investigation into drug-trafficking. Police seized $2,500 in cash and a few small baggies of marijuana from the apartment, smashing windows and charring the carpet with flash-bang grenades as they entered, but made no arrests, Stokes said. 
 
 Stokes told reporters then: “They need to stop looking at me. I want justice for my son.” 
 
 Contributing: Jon Seidel 

 Story highlights Pierre Stokes, 25, faces three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon 
 
 Two of the victims were treated and released; a third suffered a graze wound and refused medical attention 
 
 (CNN) Authorities say Tyshawn Lee, 9, was targeted and killed because his father was a ranking member of a gang. 
 
 Now, his father has been charged with shooting three people in Chicago, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told CNN. 
 
 Pierre Stokes, 25, faces three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in the shootings last week. 
 
 Two of the victims were treated and released; a third suffered a graze wound and refused medical attention. 
 
 Stokes was charged Sunday and is set to appear in court Monday for a bond hearing, said Guglielmi. It wasn't immediately clear whether he'd retained an attorney. 
 
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– The father of a 9-year-old Chicago boy lured into an alley and killed shot three people, including a suspect's girlfriend, as payback, police say. Pierre Stokes, father of Tyshawn Lee, has been charged with three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon over the shooting of two men and one woman last Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reports. Sources say the woman allegedly shot by the 25-year-old father is the girlfriend of Corey Morgan, who allegedly killed Tyshawn as revenge for an attack that killed Morgan's brother and injured his mother. The girlfriend suffered a graze wound and refused medical attention; the other two victims were treated and released, authorities say. They add that Tyshawn was targeted because of Stokes' ties to the Killa Ward faction of the Gangster Disciples gang, which is feuding with the Bang Bang Gang faction of the Black P Stones, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. "This represents the challenge that police grapple with. We are aggressively working to hold gun offenders and gang members accountable," a police spokesman tells CNN. "Mr. Stokes, who was involved in a gang lifestyle, ultimately suffered an unspeakable loss with the calculated execution of his son. Despite this, he continued to engage in the same gang activity that started this cycle of retaliatory violence." (A suspect in the Tyshawn case allegedly laughed and bragged about killing the boy.)