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Yahoo
27-03-2025
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Sheff G Receives Five Year Prison Sentence For Attempted Murder, Conspiracy
Rapper Sheff G has been sentenced to five years in prison after facing serious charges linked to gang activity, attempted murder, and conspiracy. The 26-year-old artist, born Michael Williams, was one of 32 alleged members of the 8 Trey Crips and 9 Ways gangs named in a sweeping 140-count indictment filed in May 2023. This indictment followed a string of violent incidents, including a drive-by shooting in 2020 that resulted in a death and several injuries. The case centers around an October 21, 2020, shooting at the intersection of Hawthorne Street and Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn's Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood. The attack, a result of gang violence, killed Theodore 'Sniper' Senior, a member of the Folk Nation gang, and injured five others. Investigators allege that Sheff G played a key role in orchestrating the attack. It is reported that Sheff G texted a fellow gang member to confirm whether the intended target was hit, and later gave one of the shooters a custom gold chain symbolizing Senior's death. Additionally, Sheff G was involved in another violent incident in which he allegedly drove a group of gunmen to Caton Avenue and East 18th Street in Flatbush. The group was reportedly targeting individuals connected to an earlier shooting aimed at Sheff G's home in New Jersey. However, the retaliation attempt went awry, and two innocent bystanders were wounded instead of the intended targets. Despite the gravity of these charges, the prosecution sought a far harsher punishment for the rapper, pushing for a 20-year prison sentence. However, in a surprising turn of events, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun issued a far lighter sentence, offering Sheff G five years in prison, along with five years of supervised release after his incarceration. This sentencing comes as part of an ongoing effort to clamp down on gang-related violence and organized crime in the city. In a controversial move, Sheff G made headlines last year when he appeared alongside former President Donald Trump at a rally in the Bronx. The rapper took the stage to address the crowd, expressing his support for Trump and making a statement on the media's treatment of the president. 'One thing I want to say. They always gonna whisper your accomplishments and shout your failures,' Sheff G remarked. 'Trump gonna shout the wins for all of us.' Sheff G will officially face his sentence on August 13. The case involving fellow rapper Sleepy Hallow, 25, born Tegan Chambers, is still pending, with authorities continuing their investigation into his role in the criminal activities tied to the case. Known for hits like 'No Suburban Pt. 2' and 'Tip Toe,' Sheff G is one of the prominent artists in Brooklyn's drill rap scene, which has been plagued with accusations of promoting and inciting violence among its artists and gang members. However, artists including Maino, Fivio Foreign, and others have spoken against this notion, as they believe the music is a form of expression and is often used as an opportunity to better their circumstances. More from Ma$e Talks Possibly Visiting Former Bad Boy Boss Diddy Behind Bars After Years Of Tension Jam Master Jay's Killer Hospitalized After Being Stabbed 18 Times In Prison Gang Fight R. Kelly Sings Two Fan-Favorite Hits Over The Phone From Prison On Podcast
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Yahoo
Wanted fugitive escaped from custody in North Carolina captured in Massachusetts
WEBSTER, Mass. (WWLP) – A man wanted in North Carolina in connection with evading police with illegal firearms was captured in Worcester County, Massachusetts. In a news release from Massachusetts State Police this week, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations requested assistance in locating a known gang affiliate of the 'Folk Nation.' Police say that the suspect was in possession of two illegal firearms and obtained information that he was living in Webster. Springfield Police K-9 assists in crack-cocaine, heroin bust Webster police identified the suspect as 34-year-old William Lambert of Whiteville, NC. They say that Lambert escaped from custody in North Carolina and was wanted on a fully extraditable warrant for the charge of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. He also has numerous firearms convictions. The Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section Central Team set up surveillance on North Main Street in Webster and followed the suspect as he returned from a convenience store. Once the suspect was at his residence, the troopers surrounded the area and executed a warrant. Lambert attempted to run away but was quickly captured. He is being held at the Worcester County House of Corrections pending extradition back to North Carolina. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Yahoo
Inside a Brooklyn gang war: How one teen's death sparked a bloody, years-long battle
A Brooklyn indictment offers a rare and detailed look into how a gang war exploded from the killing of one teen into a cascade of escalating tension that played out over several years in music videos, social media posts and bloody confrontations on the streets. Two allied Bloods crews, the 59 Brims and the Bloodhound Brims, had long battled with their rivals as they held onto turf in Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island. But the April 29, 2021, shooting of Davonte Lewis, 17, outside his high school in Midwood, supercharged their beef against Folk Nation and other gangs, according to prosecutors. Davonte, who went by the nickname 'Dior,' was a member of the Bloodhound Brims, prosecutors said, and his teenage accused shooters are facing trial next month. Indictment documents against 14 reputed Brims members lay out several examples of how the gang's members pledged to avenge Davonte's death. The gang members called their hunt for Folk Nation members 'Drenching for Dior,' according to the indictment, and on May 1, 2021, just two days after Davonte's killing, one of the members, Jaquell Scales, indicated on Facebook he was itching for violence. 'I love you baby bro,' he posted in a caption showing himself and two other suspects in the case showing gang hand signs. 'The celebration over I'm outside……DRENCHIN4DIOR.' The next day, another person in that photo, Karon Evans, ventured into Folk Nation territory in East Flatbush and shot and wounded a rival gang member, prosecutors say. Scales and Evans, who go by the names 'Bully Hound' and 'Kenzo Hound,' celebrated the excursion into enemy territory with a May 20 drill rap video on YouTube called 'Trip 2 the Kirk,' an apparent reference to the gang's activity in Folk Nation turf around Newkirk Ave., prosecutors said. Evans is being held on $300,000 bail after pleading not guilty to conspiracy, attempted murder, assault and multiple weapons charges. Scales is currently in state prison on a 2024 weapons case out of Brooklyn. Davonte's mother, Carlene Watts, vehemently denies her son was involved in a gang and she called the D.A.'s remarks that his death fueled a gang war 'despicable.' 'They are trying to make my son a scapegoat,' Watt told the Daily News. 'They are exploiting my son's case for their own benefit.' The teens who shot him did so out of simple jealousy, Watt maintains. 'My son had a good mother and a good grandmother. I have a good job. He had a lot of things that these kids didn't,' she said. 'They were mad…. They just didn't respect it.' The gang members used Davonte's nickname as a rallying cry for years in music videos and social media post, prosecutors say. They called a group chat 'D4D', short for 'Drenching for Dior,' and put out a music video titled with that same acronym, according to the indictment. Two Brims members involved in the ongoing clash are accused of murder. Ron 'Reko' Thomas, 22, who appears in the 'Trip 2 the Kirk' video, and Tashawn 'Ty Prime' Ware, 19, executed a rival from the Folk Nation gang on Halloween 2022, according to prosecutors. But prosecutors said Thomas and Ware didn't have to stray from their territory to kill Jamel Nicholson. He came to them. Nicholson, an up-and-coming drill rapper who went by Melly Gzz, was dating a Brims member's ex-girlfriend and was visiting her at the Nostrand Houses in Sheepshead Bay when he walked into an ambush, Brooklyn D.A. Eric Gonzalez said. 'So he's a member of a rival gang dating a woman in Bloods territory,' Gonzalez said. Thomas and Ware showed up as Nicholson and his girlfriend left their building and video shows the couple running for their lives as the two masked gunman open fire. Nicholson was killed, while his girlfriend suffered wounds that left her hospitalized for weeks. The girlfriend's mother told the News in 2022 that she needed to be hooked up to a ventilator, and had surgery to her abdomen. The accused killers then moved to Vermont, where Thomas was involved in two separate police pursuits last year, one of which left two of their fellow young New Yorkers dead on the road, police there say. Ware and Thomas are now both locked up in Vermont awaiting extradition and indictment on conspiracy, murder and other charges. Meanwhile, the gang war in Brooklyn raged on, with more taunts on Instagram, and bullets flying in Sheepshead Bay and Canarsie as recently as October. Still, the Brooklyn D.A. has pointed out in press statements, gun violence and murders have dropped across the borough, with 287 shootings last year, a sharp drop from 338 in 2023, and 449 in 2022. Gonzalez credits the drop in part to a string of gang takedowns. 'There's really a small handful of people in every part of our borough who are the shooters and the real significant drivers of violence,' he said. 'If we can identify them and target those individuals, we can see tremendous decreases in gun violence, and that's what we've been doing.'
