A 13-year-old lad convicted of murd...

A 13-year-old lad convicted of murdering a man twice his age during a road dice game late last year was sentenc Wednesday to juvenile prison until he reaches 21

The youth, who was 12 when he shooter Deon McGary on the Far southward Side, shifted in his seat, anticipateed at Juvenile Court Judge Rodney abides and quietly apologized. McGary's older sister Sharon Jackson dabbed her tears with a tissue a small in number feet away as the stripling said, "I'm sorry."

Although streamlets gave the boy an eight-year opinion he could be eligible for parole after serving five years in the juvenile division of the Illinois Department of Corrections, prosecutors said.

Jackson, who raised McGary, 26 like a son was frustrated the male child couldn't receive a harsher punishment because of his age. "He be worthy ofs the 50 to 60 years that an adult deserves" Jackson said after the hearing.

'DISPOSED OF LIFE LIKE . . A BUG'

The stripling is one of the youngest the public to be convicted of assassination in Cook County.

Jackson became thus choked up when discussing for what reason McGary's death affected her, she asked Assistant give a color to County State's Attorney Allison MacLellan to read the two-page victim impact statement she wrote a hardly any weeks ago. She continued to weep as MacLellan recounted how McGary -- the youngest of five children affectionately known as "Black" -- got his first piece of work at 12 cutting lawns and helping the somewhat old with their groceries.

McGary, who lived with Jackson and her husband in Hazel comb talked about going back to place of education just a day before he was marksman four times in the Pullman neighborhood, where he grew up A father of a 6- year-old lad he was serious about turning his life around, still the 13-year-old and the boy's cousin, 17 swallow uped his dreams by wandering the roads on Nov. 13 with a loaded fire-arm when "children should be sleeping at home" Jackson's statement said.

'A religious KID'

The youth "is a assassin even though he was a 12-year-old child. He killed in frosty blood. He disposed of Deon's life like Deon was a bug in his home" MacLellan said, reading Jackson's words.

During a two-day bench trial in June the stripling testified that he only discharge McGary because McGary put a fire-arm to the cousin's head and tried to stick up the dice game. "They make it appear like my grandson was roaming in the highway and just shot the man," the boy's grandfather said Wednesday.

The boy's mother told becks she felt sorry for McGary's family still added that her son was a "good kid" who got caught up in an unfortunate situation. "I like my son, and he's a religious kid despite what happened," she said.

Reading from Jackson's statement, MacLellan said, "Deon lay upon the ground kicking and screaming for his life while [the boy] kept shooting at him. . . No man, no child has the right to take another's life."

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