A few posters remain pasted on the wall next to the waste shaft, calling for justice for Gurley and “all victims of police violence.” “How does a cop shoot a man in a stairway, in a housing project, while doing a vertical check, and call it an accident? This is a D.I.S.G.R.A.C.E. Residents at the Houses made a memorial for Gurley on the ground floor of the building after he was killed, but it was removed after “a week or so” by the management, a resident said. The Pink Houses were actually named after a former chairman of the New York State Housing Authority, a man dedicated to eradicating slums. Gurley had entered the pitch-black stairwell on the seventh floor with his girlfriend after a long wait for the elevator, and was shot in the chest by the officer Peter Liang, who had been in the job for less than 18 months.
Gurley encountered two police officers who were doing what is called a “vertical patrol” of the narrow, unlit stairwell at the top of the building. Walker lives in the same building where Akai Gurley, the 28-year-old who was shot by the police on November 20, lived. “The neighborhood has had a reputation for a long time, and things haven’t been getting better.” “This is a dangerous neighborhood, still,” said David Walker, a 19-year-old who lives in the Pink Houses with his foster care family. In person and online, Pink Houses residents described a neighborhood where people expect the worst, and have done so for years. The public housing project, where a 28-year-old unarmed black man was shot to death by a rookie police officer last month, is in East New York, which has one of the highest crime rates in the city. Attorney Jacquelyn Kasulis said.They are called the Pink Houses, but apart from the pink equipment on the abandoned playgrounds, pink signs from the New York City Housing Authority, and, recently, a broken pink umbrella on the ground out front, they are colorless. “It is our hope that today’s charges against members of the Ninedee Gang bring some solace to the family of Shatavia Walls as we seek justice for her senseless, cold-blooded murder,” Acting Brooklyn U.S. The murder charges come as part of police efforts to clamp down on the Ninedee Gang. He is also accused of boasting about their violence, weed dealings, and other crimes in rap videos made available on YouTube, according to the New York Daily News. Meanwhile, Wint, a reputed leader of the gang, is accused of being an accessory after the fact of Walls’ murder. Green, Miller, and Fernandez are all charged with conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering. It was further revealed that a juvenile offender at the time also opened fire at the victim. Green proceeded to shoot Walls, who went down on a pathway near Linden Blvd and died 10 days later from her injuries, the New York Post noted.Īfter the slaying, several Ninedee members escaped to Queens to avoid mounting police scrutiny at the Pink Houses.Īccording to investigators, one of the guns used to kill Walls matched with the gun Miller allegedly fired in the air on July 4. They ambushed the victim as she walked along an outdoor path at the Pink Houses about 9:25 p.m. Later that day, Green joined the pair and led the plot of Walls' murder. The argument would later escalate, with Miller firing a shot into the air as he labeled her a “snitch” to the gang, according to an indictment. On July 4 of last year, the woman got into a fight with Miller and Fernandez over fireworks for the celebration. Walls’ move to testify for the government in 2017 left her being haunted by the men, who subjected her to “significant witness intimidation” by posting flyers around the Pink Houses, tagging her as “a rat,” according to prosecutors. An affiliate of the Loopy crew, dubbed the Ninedee Gang, would then take revenge and kill the "snitch" three years later. The victim, Shatavia Walls, was killed after she testified and described how members of the Loopy Gang shot her to keep her in tow, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged. The defendants, Quintin “Wild Child” Green, 20, Chayanne “White Boy” Fernandez, 21, Maliek "Leak" Miller, 27, and Kevin “Kev G” Wint, 27, all of Brooklyn, New York, have been charged with racketeering, murder in-aid-of racketeering, drug trafficking, firearms offenses, and robbery, according to a nine-count superseding indictment unsealed in Brooklyn's federal court. Four members of a violent Brooklyn street gang based at the Louis Heaton Pink Houses in East New York have been slapped with charges on Monday related to the slaying of a woman who took the stand against them in a 2017 trial, prosecutors say.
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