Murder of Eric Morse
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title:
Murder of Eric Morse
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Eric Morse was a five-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered in October 1994. Morse was dropped from a high-rise building in the Ida B. Wells Homes by ten-year-old Jesse Rankins and 11-year-old Tykeece Johnson. Morse's murder was notable for the young ages of the victim and the killers, and brought further national attention to the plight of children in Chicago's housing projects. Rankins and Johnson, both minors at the time, were convicted for the murder of Morse
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American murder
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Eric_Morse
date created:
2015-12-25T16:50:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T02:40:17Z
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