{"id":20618,"date":"2025-10-29T00:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20618\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:46:22","slug":"brooklyn-man-hit-with-33-years-to-life-for-link-to-three-slayings-when-he-was-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20618\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man hit with 33 years-to-life for link to three slayings when he was 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Brooklyn man linked to three separate homicides<\/a> just weeks apart in 2020 \u2014 when he was a 16-year-old gangbanger \u2014 was sentenced to 33 years-to-life in prison, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Iquan Warlick, 21, who lives in Fort Greene, pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder,<\/a> attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and conspiracy.<\/p>\n

Jan. 16, 2022: Teen becomes a terror<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/p>\n

New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Front page for Jan. 16, 2022: Brooklyn youth charged in four homicides. Iquan Warlick (above) is caught on camera shooting a victim in Brooklyn in 2020, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

Several other gang members had been previously sentenced for their role in the shootings, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese defendants turned our streets into shooting galleries and showed shocking disregard for human life,\u201d Gonzalez said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree innocent people were killed, others wounded, and the defendants tried to intimidate whole neighborhoods. That ends here. Long prison terms like this send a simple message to anyone who thinks gang beefs can be settled with a gun. Brooklyn will not tolerate it, and we will hold you accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to prosecutors, on Sept. 12, 2020, Warlick was trading texts with gang associates, telling them the location of a rival gang member who was later fatally shot.<\/p>\n

Some six weeks later, on Oct. 28, Warlick and another gang associate surprised a rival gang member at an East New York bodega, chasing him outside where Warlick fatally shot him, officials said.<\/p>\n

The following month, on Nov. 22, Warlick and his partners ambushed an East New York birthday party, where a rival was shot in the leg. When the party moved to a Bedford-Stuyvesant location, Warlick and his partners followed, opened fire and killed Daijyonna Long, 20, a college student visiting from Virginia, <\/a>officials said.<\/p>\n

Officials said Warlick went online to boast about one of the shootings.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust violated some rocky world n\u2014a,\u201d Warlick wrote in a group chat, referencing the name of the rival crew.<\/p>\n

He also sent a link to the Citizen app<\/a> with the headline boasting: \u201cMan Critically Injured in Shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man linked to three separate homicides just weeks apart in 2020 \u2014 when he was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-20618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618","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=20618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}