Bridgeport Man Pleads Guilty To Courthouse Shooting: Feds

BRIDGEPORT, CT — A Bridgeport man has pleaded guilty to playing a role in a courthouse shooting, according to a statement from federal prosecutors. Tyiese Warren, aka "Loose Screw," 21, pleaded guilty to a racketeering crime stemming from a murder and other violent crimes he committed as a member of a Bridgeport gang.

According to prosecutors, federal and local law enforcement have been investigating multiple Bridgeport-based gangs involved in drug trafficking, murder, and other acts of violence.
Warren has been a member of the "Original North End" gang based in the Trumbull Gardens area of Bridgeport.

The gang's members and associates dealt drugs, laundered drug profits, committed numerous acts of violence against rival gang members, and stole cars that they then used to commit crimes according to the statement.

From 2017 to 2020, the gang was aligned with the “Greene Homes Boyz” (“GHB/Hotz”), a gang based in the Charles F. Greene Homes Housing Complex in Bridgeport’s North End, against rival groups in Bridgeport, including the East End, East Side and PT Barnum gangs, as well as 150, which is a geographic gang based on the West Side of Bridgeport.

In pleading guilty, Warren admitted that on Dec. 8, 2019, he and others shot and killed Ty’Quess Moore, part of the East End/P.T. Barnum gang alliance.

Warren also helped plan the retaliation shootings of East End gang members and associates in a daylight shooting in front of a Bridgeport courthouse in January 2020. About 20 shots were fired in the crime, and four victims were shot while sitting inside a black Chevrolet Impala.

One victim was shot in the side of his chest and was left paralyzed and a second victim sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his back, shoulder, and wrist. The victims’ car had 23 entry bullet holes in the driver’s side and windshield area.

Warren also admitted that he participated in gang-related drug trafficking and to several other crimes.

In a car theft March 25, 2020, Warren and an accomplice stole a car in front of the Citgo 6M Service Station and Quik Mart at 2000 Barnum Ave. in Stratford. During the theft, they dragged the car’s driver, who was trying to stop the theft and was hanging onto the car, several hundred yards before he let go.

Warren and an accomplice then carjacked a Toyota Corolla in Bridgeport, holding the owner at gunpoint and ultimately driving away in the car, according to prosecutors.

Minutes later, Warren and an accomplice committed a gunpoint robbery of the Citgo in Stratford, taking cash from the store and a cellphone from a store employee.

Stratford police arrested Warren later that night after he crashed another stolen car he was driving on an I-95 on-ramp and then ran from police, according to prosecutors.

He is scheduled for sentencing Jan. 21, when he faces a maximum term of life in prison. Warren has been detained since his arrest March 25, 2020.