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Dahleen Glanton: '(There) ain't no age. Period': The chilling words of an alleged child killer

The words of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee's accused killer were chilling.

"(There) ain't no age. Period. Age 8 to 80," he said in a recording played during his murder trial on Monday. "Eight days, eight seconds in this world, or 80 years, this is what I'm telling you."

Alleged gang member Dwright Doty was laying out the rules of the streets. He revealed with uncanny honesty that in the senseless, unregulated anarchy of street justice, rules are careless and uncompromising.

He made it clear that anyone

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