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Members of Brooklyn-based ‘Ninedee Gang’ charged with racketeering, murder of a witness

August 9, 2021 Brooklyn Eagle Staff
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On Monday, a nine-count indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court charging four members of the Ninedee Gang, a violent street gang based at the Louis H. Pink Houses in East New York, with racketeering, murder in-aid-of racketeering, drug trafficking, firearms offenses and robbery. 

The charges were announced against defendants Quintin Green, Chayanne Fernandez, Maliek Miller and Kevin Wint. Green and Wint were arrested Monday morning and were arraigned Monday afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes, Jr. Fernandez and Miller were already in federal custody as a result of prior charges and will be arraigned at a later date. 

Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, acting United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Jacqueline Maguire, acting assistant director-in-charge, FBI, New York Field Office; and Dermot F. Shea, commissioner, NYPD, announced the arrests and charges. 

As detailed in the superseding indictment and court filings, the Ninedee Gang is a criminal enterprise operating in East New York. The gang’s leaders, including Wint, promoted the gang on social media and in rap videos, highlighting violence, drug sales and fraudulent activities. 

The plan to kill Walls was allegedly hatched by Green, Fernandez, Miller and others after a dispute on the Fourth of July 2020 over the lighting of fireworks. During a confrontation with the victim, Miller called her a “snitch” and fired a gunshot into the air. Walls had been called as a government witness one year earlier during a federal criminal trial in Brooklyn and testified that she had been shot by another Pink Houses gang member. 

Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes, Jr., was added to the Board of Trustees at Brooklyn Law School. He is a former Alumni of the Year at the school and was given the inaugural Jack B. Weinstein Mediation Settlement Award in 2016. Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Law School
Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes Jr., EDNY. Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Law School

On the evening of July 7, 2020, Ninedee Gang members, including Green and a juvenile male opened fire on Walls as she walked through a courtyard at the Pink Houses, according to the indictment. Walls was shot multiple times and succumbed to the gunshot wounds on July 17, 2020. 

Ballistic evidence recovered from the scene of the fatal shooting showed that one of the handguns used to kill Walls matched the firearm used by Miller on the Fourth of July, the federal Prosecutor’s Office said. In the days after Walls’ murder, the defendants posted on Facebook a newspaper article about the murder and claimed credit on behalf of the Ninedee Gang. 

Additionally, Green is charged with the Hobbs Act robbery of a Target store on Staten Island on Nov. 3, 2020; Wint with access device fraud; Fernandez, Miller and Wint with conspiracy to distribute marijuana; and Green, Fernandez and Miller with unlawful use and possession of firearms. 

If convicted of murder in aid of racketeering, Green, Fernandez and Miller face a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment and are eligible for the death penalty. If convicted of racketeering, Wint faces up to 20 years’ imprisonment, and up to 15 years’ imprisonment for accessory after the fact to Walls’s murder. 

“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,” stated Acting United States Attorney Kasulis. “This office and its law enforcement partners are committed to ending the brutality that violent gangs so wantonly inflict on citizens in our communities.” 

“This investigation serves as a warning to criminals who behave as if there are no consequences to their actions. We have the ability in the federal criminal justice system to put these violent gang members away for a long time, and we will persist in our efforts to get them off the streets,” said FBI Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge Maguire. 

The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s Organized Crime and Gang Section. Assistant United States Attorneys James P. McDonald and Emily J. Dean are in charge of the prosecution.

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