Vicious Gang Taken Down After 2-Year Brooklyn Turf War: DA

EAST FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Gang members from the Martense Beverly Bosses who shot up an East Flatbush mall and counted their killings on a "scoreboard” were arrested and charged with conspiracy and murder this week, prosecutors said.

Eighteen gang members were named in a 41-count indictment that details how they carried out two murders, eight shootings and conspired to buy weapons and murder others, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office.

“They cavalierly discuss shooting at rivals as if they were keeping score at a basketball game,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. “But this is not a game. There is a trail of dead and injured victims.”

The Martense Beverly Bosses — a group within the Bloods gang — began waging war against their rival East Flatbush gang, Collect Your Guap, when a rumor spread that CYG members had murdered Tyreke “Trini” Borel in September, 2016, prosecutors said.

That war lasted until the arrests on June 14, prosecutors said.

Gang members Quentin Raymond, Jeremy Denaud and Stephon Daly shot at rivals they spotted in the crowded Kings Plaza Mall on July 8, 2017, at about 5:40 p.m., prosecutors said. Surveillance photo shows terrified shoppers running for their lives out of the mall.

Gymanni Carrington fatally shot an alleged rival, Donaven Frazier, outside of Franklin’s Finest Deli in Crown Heights on Sept. 16, 2017, at about 4:25 a.m., said prosecutors.

Javed Duncan shot a rival in the foot as he walked down Linden Boulevard on Oct. 20, said prosecutors.

And most recently, Harold Phillips allegedly shot and killed Jerome Spence, a 26-year-old construction worker, on April 1, prosecutors said.

The war prompted investigators to record conversations between MBB members, during which they talked about their ongoing war as though it were a basketball game, requesting shootings go “up on the scoreboard,” calling guns “ball kicks” and missed targets “air balls.”

Jailed gang members were called benchwarmers, prosecutors said.

Each of the 18 MMB members were arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court this week, charged with conspiracy and held on bail, prosecutors said.

Some members also face murder, attempted murder, assault and various other charges, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors named the alleged gang members as Romel Baptiste, 18, Gymanni Carrington, 17, Stephon Daly, 19, Jeremy Denaud, 17, Javed Duncan, 17, Asa Francis, 18, Kobe Franklyn, 16, Kahrone Hyde, 18, Aysia Perez, 19, Demitrius Philemon, 20, Harold Phillips, 19, Jahmel Phillips, 20, Quentin Raymond, 17, John Rodriguez, 21, Elijah Roy, 18, Tyrique Royal, 19, and Chyanne Tait, 19.

The group face up to 25 years in prison if convicted, prosecutors said.

Photo courtesy of the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office