{"id":20626,"date":"2025-10-29T00:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:56:25","slug":"brooklyn-man-hit-with-33-years-to-life-for-link-to-three-slayings-when-he-was-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20626\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man hit with 33 years-to-life for link to three slayings when he was 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Brooklyn man linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/01\/15\/brooklyn-teen-accused-of-four-gang-related-killings-went-from-school-kid-to-suspected-spree-killer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:three separate homicides;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iquan Warlick, 21, who lives in Fort Greene, pleaded guilty last month to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2020\/11\/24\/she-was-my-princess-grandmother-of-brooklyn-sweet-16-shooting-victim-remembers-teen-destined-for-better-things\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:second-degree murder,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">second-degree murder,<\/a> attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several other gang members had been previously sentenced for their role in the shootings, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThese defendants turned our streets into shooting galleries and showed shocking disregard for human life,\u201d Gonzalez said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2020\/11\/05\/brooklyn-shooting-victim-was-college-student-filled-with-ambition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Daijyonna Long, 20, a college student visiting from Virginia,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> Daijyonna Long, 20, a college student visiting from Virginia, <\/a>officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said Warlick went online to boast about one of the shootings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cJust violated some rocky world n\u2014a,\u201d Warlick wrote in a group chat, referencing the name of the rival crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He also sent a link to the Citizen <a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,13916,100,99,5533,13914,13913,9,24,63,13915],"class_list":{"0":"post-20626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-da","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-eric-gonzalez","13":"tag-gang-members","14":"tag-iquan-warlick","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-rival-gang-member"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626","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=20626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}