Crime & Safety

Man Charged In Brooklyn Murder Of Lil' Kim's Cousin: Cops

A reputed gang member was charged this week for killing Courtney Tingle in Prospect Heights earlier this year, according to cops and reports

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — The man who shot rapper Lil' Kim's cousin outside a Prospect Heights church earlier this year has been arrested, cops announced Thursday.

Daquan Carter, 28, was charged this week with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon for the March shooting that left Courtney "Aggy" Tingle lying with multiple gunshot wounds outside a Washington Avenue church, police said.

Courtney, 26, was Brooklyn native Lil' Kim's younger cousin, according to the Daily News.

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"It breaks my heart to have to send out this special RIP to my little cousin Aggy who was shot and killed," she wrote in a Facebook post in March. "At times you were so quiet but as soon as you stated speaking everyone in the room knew that you were a real riot."

Police sources said Courtney, a young father, was affiliated with the Team Bang Out street gang and had been leaving a party at a catering hall on Washington Avenue when Carter shot him in the chest, the News reported.

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Police found Tingle with multiple gunshot wounds just after 10 p.m. on March 22. Emergency responders rushed him to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save his life, police said.

Records show that Carter, who the News said was a member of the Bloods gang, and Tingle both lived in the Walt Whitman Houses New York City Housing Authority complex in Fort Greene, just a three minute walk from one another.

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