On October 13, 1994, two of five-year-old Eric Morse's schoolmates, Jesse Rankins (aged ten years old) and Tykeece Johnson (aged 11), had asked him to steal candy from a store, but Morse refused. Rankins and Johnson, both minors at the time, were convicted for the murder of Morse and sentenced to five years' imprisonment each. 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. Wells Homes by ten-year-old Jesse Rankins and 11-year-old Tykeece Johnson. Morse was dropped from a high-rise building in the Ida B. 1989 – October 13, 1994) was a five-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered in October 1994.
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