{"id":161062,"date":"2026-03-12T02:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161062\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:58:34","slug":"four-reputed-gang-members-charged-in-2023-murder-of-16-year-old-girl-at-queens-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161062\/","title":{"rendered":"Four reputed gang members charged in 2023 murder of 16-year-old girl at Queens playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four reputed members of the 007 gang were indicted Wednesday for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/05\/11\/girl-16-shot-in-head-left-clinging-to-life-after-argument-in-queens-playground-pray-for-my-daughter-dad-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the murder of 16-year-old Claudia Quatey <\/a>\u00a0nearly three years after she was gunned down at a Queens playground, <a href=\"https:\/\/queensda.org\/four-reputed-gang-members-indicted-on-murder-and-conspiracy-charges-for-shooting-death-of-16-year-old-innocent-bystander\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zaire Rolley, 21, Nicolson Pierrimas, 20, and Messiah Randall, 19, were arrested Wednesday morning and charged with murder, conspiracy and criminal possession of a weapon for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/05\/22\/16-year-old-queens-girl-shot-in-head-during-playground-quarrel-dies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the fatal shooting of Claudia on May 10, 2023<\/a>, Katz said. All three defendants pleaded not guilty and were held without bail later that day at their arraignments in Queens Supreme Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth defendant, 19-year-old Jomar Pointdujour, is currently being held on a separate arrest and is scheduled to be arraigned at a later date, the Queens DA said.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia was sitting in a rear passenger seat of a blue Hyundai Venue in front of the Jackie Robinson School located on Lucas St. near 121st Ave. in St. Albans when Randall and Pierrimas opened fire around 8:30 p.m., Katz said.<\/p>\n<p>Claudia was struck in the head. She was brought to Jamaica Hospital, where she lingered a day before dying.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was in the car with a group of four other teens, including a member of the TopOpp gang \u2014 rivals of the defendant\u2019s 007 gang \u2014 and had just come from a \u201cplanned confrontation\u201d between a friend and another teen at Locust Manor Playground when the violence erupted, according to the DA\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The teen victim wanted to become a nurse, her aunt told the Daily News shortly after her death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wanted to help people, she wanted to heal people. She was a giving soul, she was very matter-of-fact. She was raised well, she comes from a very cultured background,\u201d Bortey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was just a beautiful person, she was very giving. Smart as a whip.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four reputed members of the 007 gang were indicted Wednesday for the murder of 16-year-old Claudia Quatey \u00a0nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-161062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}