Walls had been called as a government witness one year earlier during a federal criminal trial in Brooklyn and testified that she had been shot by another Pink Houses gang member. During a confrontation with the victim, Miller called her a “snitch” and fired a gunshot into the air. The plan to kill Walls was allegedly hatched by Green, Fernandez, Miller and others following a dispute on the Fourth of July 2020 over the lighting of fireworks. The gang’s leaders, including Wint, promoted the gang on social media and in rap videos, highlighting its violence, drug sales and fraudulent activities. I commend our police investigators and the prosecutors in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York for leading us to justice with this federal indictment,” stated NYPD Commissioner Shea.Īs detailed in the superseding indictment and court filings, the Ninedee Gang is a criminal enterprise operating in East New York, Brooklyn. “The NYPD remains committed to providing every resource possible to dismantling the violent gangs and crews that prey on New Yorkers. Our outstanding partnership with the NYPD allows us to pursue the most violent and persistent offenders and hold them accountable for their blatant disregard for human life and safe communities,” stated FBI Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge Maguire. We have the ability in the federal criminal justice system to put these violent gang members away for a long time, and we will persist in our efforts to get them off the streets. “This investigation serves as a warning to criminals who behave as if there are no consequences to their actions. I commend the FBI special agents and the NYPD detectives for their relentless investigative work on the case.” “This Office and its law enforcement partners are committed to ending the brutality that violent gangs so wantonly inflict on citizens in our communities. “It is our hope that today’s charges against members of the Ninedee Gang bring some solace to the family of Shatavia Walls as we seek justice for her senseless, cold-blooded murder,” stated Acting United States Attorney Kasulis. Shea, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD), announced the arrests and charges. Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Jacqueline Maguire, Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Dermot F. Fernandez and Miller were already in federal custody as a result of prior charges and will be arraigned at later date. Green and Wint were arrested this morning and will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Ramon E.
The new charges were announced against defendants Quintin Green, Chayanne Fernandez, Maliek Miller and Kevin Wint. Pink Houses (“Pink Houses”) in East New York, with racketeering, murder in-aid-of racketeering, drug trafficking, firearms offenses and robbery. “This development will help hundreds of families reach stable, affordable housing, providing them with a legitimate foundation to achieve more.Earlier today, a nine-count superseding indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging four members of the Ninedee Gang, a violent street gang based at the Louis H. “The only way to help our city’s housing crisis is to invest in more livable, high-quality, affordable housing like the development at Linden Terrace in East New York we’re acknowledging today,” said Reynoso. The income-restricted apartments are designated for households earning between 30 and 80 percent of the area median income.īrooklyn borough president Antonio Reynoso was among the group celebrating the debut of the new building and urged the construction of similar developments in New York City. The development was made possible by the agencies Mix & Match, Extremely Low-Income and Low-Income Affordability, and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) programs.ĭesigned by Magnusson Architecture and Planning, the first building comprises a mix of layouts ranging from one- to three-bedrooms. The Linden Terrace development team includes Radson Development, Real Builders, and Spring Management with support from New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and Housing Development Corporation (HDC). The teams also celebrated the commencement of construction for the second and third buildings, which will eventually comprise 159 and 155 additional affordable apartments.
Located at 2858 Linden Boulevard, the building comprises 234 affordable homes. Developers and New York City officials recently joined to celebrate the first phase of completion at Linden Terrace, a 548-unit affordable housing complex in East New York, Brooklyn.