Feds bust 3 alleged Crip Babiez gangsters in shocking NYC cold-case murder of 12-year-old
Three accused members of the “Insane Crip Gangsters Babiez” were busted Thursday for fatally shooting a 12-year-old boy eating dinner inside a car in Brooklyn in a 2022 case of mistaken identity that shocked the city.Kade Lewin’s mother burst into tears as her son’s alleged shooters Ousmane Diallo, 24, and Mayel Bussereth, 26, were hauled in front of a judge to face federal charges of killing the boy while opening fire on a sedan they thought belonged to a gang rival.“She’s been waiting for a long time,” Pastor Gilford Monrose, the family’s spiritual adviser, said after the suspects were held without bail at a hearing in Brooklyn federal court.“There’s no counsel that can prepare you for this,” Monrose added.
“There’s only God.”The killed boy’s mom Suzette Lewin wept, with a friend rocking her back and forth, in the courtroom gallery as a judge read aloud the charges against Diallo, Bussereth and a third alleged crew member, 25-year-old Jonah Luc, who allegedly served as the getaway driver, ferrying the killers to and from the scene of the East Flatbush shooting in a black Mercedes.The 12-year-old had been eating dinner with family members inside the car at East 56th Street and Linden Boulevard at around 7:45 p.m.when he was shot in the head and chest, according to prosecutors.
He died within 10 minutes.Lewin’s 20-year-old female cousin was also shot several times, but survived, while an 8-year-old girl in the car witnessed the horrific shooting but wasn’t struck by any bullets, the feds say.The deadly trio are part of the local “Babiez” crew — so dubbed because of the youth of its members — that has terrorized Crown Heights and Flatbush with a spree of shootings since 2019, Brooklyn US Attorney Joe Nocella and prosecutors said in a letter filed with the court.Being a so-called “shooter” earned you respect in the crew, an offshoot of the Insane Crip Gangsters gang based in Long Beach, California, the feds wrote.The B...