{"id":278257,"date":"2026-06-25T20:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278257\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:54:31","slug":"22-alleged-brooklyn-street-gang-members-indicted-for-26-shootings-across-borough-in-three-year-guerrilla-war-with-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278257\/","title":{"rendered":"22 alleged Brooklyn street gang members indicted for 26 shootings across borough in three-year guerrilla war with rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

These guns, the pair said, belonged to members of a subset of Folk Nation (\u201cRenegade Goons\u201d and \u201cOOs\u201d), 22 of whom were charged in a 176-count indictment unveiled on June 25. The alleged gang members are accused of wreaking bloody havoc across Brooklyn since October 2022 through 26 separate shootings across areas such as Crown Heights and Flatbush over a three-year period. <\/p>\n

This trail of bullets left 23 people injured and one man dead.\n<\/p>\n

According to Gonzalez, the rash of gun violence broke out after Jamel Nicholson, a.k.a., \u201cMelly Gzs,\u201d and Lawrence Augustin, a.k.a., \u201cLo Bandz\u201d were gunned down in October by rival gang 59 Brim in October 2022. Prosecutors say it sparked a tour of revenge that saw the Folk Nation subsets stalk the streets looking for victims they believed to be associated with their adversaries, and opening fire with reckless abandon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to call it spinning the block, where they would go out and just shoot any rival, but they\u2019re actually looking for people and trying to assassinate them, and not say this is an assassination,\u201d Gonzalez said, referring to a 2024 slaying of a 24-year-old Daequan Buckley.<\/p>\n

\"\"Governor Kathy Hochul and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez held up handguns Thursday morning, which were used in devastating shootings that left innocent people injured.Photo by Dean Moses \"\"Gov. Kathy Hochul and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez held up handguns Thursday morning, which were used in devastating shootings that left innocent people injured.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n

Gonzalez showed a video that, he says, depicts now-21-year-old Shamear Webster peering into a barbershop near Utica and Church Avenues for about 20 minutes until Buckley left the business. Webster allegedly opened fire some five times, striking him in the heart and perforating his lung.<\/p>\n

Buckley was taken to Brookdale Hospital and pronounced dead.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t stand a chance. He was assassinated right there, a 24-year-old man killed just leaving a barber shop. This is the murder weapon,\u201d Gonzalez said, lifting another handgun. \u201cWe know that this is in fact a gun that was used to kill a 24-year-old man who had just gotten his hair cut.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonzalez also showed alleged gunmen Deremous Wilder and Gabriel Rhoden opening fire along Atlantic Avenue in East New York outside of a Sweet 16 party, injuring six teens, who ranged in age from 15 to 17. One of the gunmen used a handgun equipped with a laser sight.<\/p>\n

Nine of the 22 charged are teens, and all but five of the 22 are charged with attempted murder for allegedly pulling the trigger during a shooting.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\"\"Gonzalez showed video that he says depicted now 21-year-old Shamear Webster peering into a Utica Ave. and Church Avenue barbershop for about twenty minutes until Buckley left the business.Brooklyn DA \"\"One of the gunmen used a handgun equipped with a laser sight.Brooklyn DA<\/p>\n

Hochul pointed out that at least one of the weapons recovered is a ghost gun,<\/a> a weapon that can be 3D printed at home but fires real bullets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis looks like an ordinary gun. You cannot tell the difference at all, but this is what we know as a ghost gun. It\u2019s starting to show up more and more and more in these prosecutions, because they\u2019re untraceable. And literally, these can be manufactured at your kitchen table with a printer,\u201d Hochul said. She recently signed legislation that will require every 3D printer sold in New York to include software that prevents it from printing gun parts.<\/p>\n

The defendants charged in the case were arraigned on Wednesday. They were either remanded or are being held on high bail.\n<\/p>\n

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said, \u201cThese are some of the most dangerous criminals in New York City.\u201d
\n\"\"\u201cHe didn\u2019t stand a chance. He was assassinated right there, a 24-year-old man killed just leaving a barber shop. This is the murder weapon,\u201d Gonzalez said, lifting another handgun. \u201cPhoto by Dean Moses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These guns, the pair said, belonged to members of a subset of Folk Nation (\u201cRenegade Goons\u201d and \u201cOOs\u201d),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,37917,100,99,303,6809,9,24,63,103,104,3980],"class_list":["post-278257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-da-eric-gonzalez","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-gangs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-shootings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278257","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=278257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}