Global Courant 2023-05-17 12:14:17
A successful rapper used earnings from his music career to promote gun violence in Brooklyn, prosecutors alleged Tuesday.
Michael Williams, known as Sheff G, is one of 32 alleged street gang members charged Tuesday in a series of shootings in Brooklyn that left one person dead and a dozen others injured.
According to the indictment, the defendants are all members of 8 Trey Crips and its affiliate, the 9 Ways gang, and are alleged to have committed shootings, possessed weapons and used stolen cars to take out rivals, including members of Folk Nation Gangster Disciples and ICG Babiez.
The charges relate to 27 alleged acts of violence, including 12 shootings.
“The senseless gun violence allegedly perpetrated by these suspects terrorized our neighbors for years and left more than a dozen people seriously injured. It is disturbing to know that some of the violence was allegedly fueled by a young man using money that he earned from a successful music career to fund and encourage acts of violence,” said Brooklyn Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
Williams offered money and expensive jewelry to those who committed acts of violence, prosecutors said.
The indictment also outlined a shooting in which Williams allegedly coordinated a group of three gunmen, who drove gunmen to the crime scene and then acted as getaway driver.
Michael Williams in a Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office mug shot.
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office
Williams is due to appear in court on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear who his lawyer is.
One of the charges stems from a mass shooting on October 21, 2020, in which a defendant, Kamondre Dekattu, was reportedly captured on surveillance video emerging from the sunroof of a white Infiniti and opening fire as other individuals fired weapons from the driver’s side and driver’s rear side windows.
An alleged Folk Nation rival, Theodore Senior, 23, was killed and five other alleged Folk Nation members were shot and wounded.
Dekattu is charged with the murder and his co-conspirators, including Williams and his sister, Crystal Williams, are charged with being part of the conspiracy to commit murder, for this incident and others.
Two days after the murder, Michael Williams reportedly hosted a lavish dinner with his fellow members of 8 Trey Crips and 9 Ways, including Tegan Chambers, at a Manhattan steakhouse to celebrate the death of Theodore Senior and the injuries of the five other victims of the murder. to celebrate the shooting.
“Sheff G became a prominent member of this gang and was at the center of our investigation,” Gonzalez said at a news conference. “Sheff G used much of the money he earned to facilitate further gang activity. He encouraged gang members to participate in violent crime.”
