Three Gang Members Federally Indicted Four and a Half Years After a 12-Year-Old Boy Was Shot Dead Eating Dinner in a Parked Car in Brooklyn
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced on November 12 that three alleged members of the "Insane Crip Gangsters / Babiez" crew had been indicted in federal court in Brooklyn in connection with the 2022 killing of 12-year-old Kade Lewin. All three pleaded not guilty and were held without bail.
The shooting took place at about 7:45 p.m. on March 31, 2022, at East 56th Street and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City. Kade Lewin was eating dinner with cousins in a parked sedan when a black Mercedes stopped alongside and two gunmen opened fire; he was hit in the head and chest and died within minutes.
Federal prosecutors under U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. say it was a mistaken-identity shooting: the gunmen intended to target an associate of a rival gang, and hit this car instead.
The three men are Ousmane Diallo, 24, an alleged shooter who was already serving 14 years in New York state prison for other attempted murders; Mayel Bussereth, 26, an alleged second shooter arrested that morning; and Jonah Luc, 25, the alleged driver, whose case broke in 2025 when, questioned on an unrelated fraud case, he admitted he had been in the Mercedes. Prosecutors say Diallo and Bussereth face life in prison or the death penalty if convicted of murder in aid of racketeering.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
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