Wicked Town Chicago gang leader Donald 'Lil' Don' Lee was held responsible for 6 murders in racketeering trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
Thirteen alleged members of the Wicked Town faction of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang face new charges that connects the gang to a stunning 19 murders over 20 years.A federal jury Tuesday convicted the head of the relentlessly violent Wicked Town street gang and held him responsible for six murders at the end of a two-month racketeering trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
After reading the verdict, U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin thanked the jurors and called their service "incredible." He did not set a sentencing hearing for Lee or Benson, who face mandatory life sentences.The trial of Lee and Benson stretched across more than nine weeks and repeatedly exposed jurors to evidence of brutal violence.
That friend, Donald Holmes Jr., was shot to death along with Diane Taylor in a Jeep Cherokee on Jan. 31, 2018, in the 4700 block of Arthington Street. Darius "Skudder" Murphy was later allegedly caught on tape bragging that he shot Holmes and Taylor in their heads. The Jeep was sitting outside Murphy's home at the time of the killings. He has since admitted to their murders.
She also stressed the trial was not a "town hall meeting" and the verdict would "say nothing" about the scourge of street-gang violence in Chicago. "You don't ever sell one of the guns that can save one of the guys' life," Lee told a fellow gang member in an April 2019 phone call, according to the evidence.
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