Three men indicted in 2022 murder of 12-year-old Kade Lewin in Brooklyn
Federal prosecutors have charged three alleged gang members over the 2022 shooting death of Kade Lewin, a 12-year-old boy killed in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Three men charged over killing of Brooklyn boy, four years after shooting
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have indicted three men in connection with the March 2022 murder of Kade Lewin, a 12-year-old boy shot dead while eating a meal with his cousins inside a parked car in East Flatbush, nytimes.com reports.
On 31 March 2022, a black Mercedes pulled up alongside the sedan in which Kade was sitting in the front seat. Two gunmen opened fire, striking the boy in the head and chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene; an older cousin in the vehicle was critically injured.
Police said the gunmen most likely mistook Kade for a rival gang member. No arrests were made in the case for more than four years — a period during which the killing drew widespread attention in New York City at a time when murders in the city had surged.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors announced a breakthrough. Ousmane Diallo and Mayel Bussereth are accused of opening fire on Kade, while a third man, Jonah Luc, was in the back seat of the Mercedes at the time of the shooting. Prosecutors wrote in a letter to a federal judge that the purpose of the attack was to "target an associate of a rival gang," whom the gunmen misidentified.
All three men — described by prosecutors as members of a violent street gang — appeared in Federal District Court in Brooklyn on Thursday and pleaded not guilty.
Joseph Nocella Jr., the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, credited members of various law enforcement agencies who, he said, "relentlessly pursued justice for this innocent child."
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