Three Brooklyn gang members from Coney Island plead guilty to racketeering conspiracy involving participation in murder
CONEY ISLAND — Three Brooklyn men associated with Coney Island-based gang West End Enterprise have pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy in connection to the murder of Antwon Flowers, the United States attorney has announced.
Detailed in the superseding indictment, other public court filings and statements in court, the defendants, 28-year-old Tysheen Cooper, 33-year-old Michael Liburd and 30-year-old Maurice Washington, were members of the street gang comprised of people residing in and around the Sea Rise Apartments, the Gravesend Houses and Surfside Gardens, also known as the “Mermaid Houses.
The U.S. attorney said the gang committed various criminal acts, including narcotics distribution, robbery, extortion and murder between 2011 and October 2017. Then, on January 17, 2016, the three agreed to murder Flowers in retaliation for what they believed was his role in setting up the killing of a West End Enterprise leader the previous day.