{"id":373696,"date":"2026-10-15T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373696\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:06:21","slug":"cowardly-leader-of-brooklyns-ninedee-gang-gets-life-for-killing-of-woman-who-beat-him-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373696\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cowardly’ leader of Brooklyn’s Ninedee Gang gets life for killing of woman who beat him up"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge blasted a gang leader as a \u201ccoward\u201d and sentenced him to life for ordering the death<\/a> of a former federal witness because\u00a0she humiliated him and beat him up in a fight over Fourth of July fireworks.<\/p>\n

Maliek Miller\u2019s fate was sealed before he was led into Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday, since he was staring down a mandatory term of life for the murder-in-aid-of-racketeering of Shatavia Walls on July 7, 2020. A jury found him guilty<\/a> of her killing and other gang-related federal offenses in June 2024.<\/p>\n

Miller, 33, was the leader of the Ninedee Gang, which operates out of the Pink Houses in East New York, and Walls took the stand in a 2019 federal court trial after she was shot by a member of the Loopy Gang,<\/a> which is linked to the Ninedees.<\/p>\n

\"ShataviaShatavia Walls was shot and killed by gang members in East New York in 2020 after she complained about fireworks at her housing complex.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was also targeted because of the bruised ego of cowards,\u201d Brooklyn Federal Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall boomed Wednesday. \u201cBy men who got bested, not once, but twice by a woman, and could not let it go!\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller didn\u2019t pull the trigger himself, but he recruited the younger members of his gang to hunt down Walls after finding out she was trying to make peace following their fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings have changed since I grew up, but that was baffling to me,\u201d the judge said. \u201cEverything about this case, every action, was so cowardly.\u201d<\/p>\n

pink houses shot nycha<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Gardiner Anderson\/for New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Police investigate a double-shooting in a courtyard of the NYCHA Pink Houses on Loring Avenue in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Shatavia Walls was shot in the courtyard and died of her wounds on Friday, July 17, 2020. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Walls \u2014 who never saw herself as a snitch, but rather as a shooting victim who stood up for herself \u2014 got into a fight with Miller and his cousin over fireworks in the housing complex on July 4, 2020. She got the better of both and beat them up, and Miller fired a shot in the air before leaving.<\/p>\n

Miller couldn\u2019t handle losing to a woman, though, and plotted revenge, prosecutors said at his trial.<\/a> Miller and his gang started plotting their vengeance against Walls, and when he heard she was looking to make peace, to \u201cdead the beef,\u201d he told his crew, \u201cF\u2014 her. She\u2019s a rat,\u201d Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Dean recounted.<\/p>\n

\"AA flyer put up around the Pink Houses in 2019 about Shatavia Walls being a “rat.” (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York)<\/p>\n

On July 7, 2020, Ninedee members Quintin Green and Joe Santana, who were 19 and 16 at the time, spotted Walls, chased her down a path in the housing development and repeatedly shot her. She died 10 days later, and the gang celebrated with champagne, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Green and Santana, who both pleaded guilty, got 35 and 22 years in prison, respectively.<\/p>\n

\"QuintinQuintin Green of the Ninedees Gang.<\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s lawyers wanted the judge to make a statement at sentencing that Miller was getting life only because the law required it, not because it was the judge\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n

Hall wouldn\u2019t have it, though, and gave him concurrent life sentences in two of the charges where life wasn\u2019t mandatory.<\/p>\n

Miller, dressed in a bright yellow jail jumpsuit, swiveled his chair, rolled his eyes, tilted his head and looked up at the ceiling during the proceeding. Twice, he pulled out a comb and started grooming his beard. After he did it the second time, U.S. Marshals took the comb away from him.<\/p>\n

Shatavia Walls<\/p>\n

\"ShataviaShatavia Walls was shot in the courtyard at the Pink Houses in East New York on July 7, 2020, and died of her wounds 10 days later.<\/p>\n

When asked if he wanted to make a statement, Miller only said that he maintained his innocence, adding, \u201cI hope to appeal the verdict and the sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge blasted him at his sentencing, telling him, \u201cIn what you said to me, you have no room, no room for any, any responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gun, the weed, the meetings\u2026. Something. You could take responsibility for something!\u201d she excoriated him.<\/p>\n

pink houses shot nycha<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Catherina Gioino for New York Daily News<\/p>\n

A candle memorial for Shatavia Walls is pictured near her home on Sunday, July 19, 2020. (Catherina Gioino for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

After handing down sentence, Hall said she hopes Miller finds some purpose in his life behind bars, that he\u2019s able to find some way to contribute to society, or help those younger than him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Miller, I do wish you well,\u201d she told him. \u201cI hope you listen to what I said. Don\u2019t make this meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge blasted a gang leader as a \u201ccoward\u201d and sentenced him to life for ordering the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,11827,100,99,8372,12858,109854,787,137567,52984,84219,137564,259,9,24,63,305,137569,137568,137565,137566],"class_list":["post-373696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-federal-court","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-east-new-york","tag-fight","tag-fourth-of-july-fireworks","tag-gun-violence","tag-humiliation","tag-lashann-dearcy-hall","tag-life-sentence","tag-maliek-miller","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nycha","tag-ordered-hit","tag-pink-houses","tag-shatavia-walls","tag-wounded-male-ego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373696","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=373696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}