Gang violence in New York City has left a slew of gunshot victims in its path, some of them teenagers.
A half dozen members of a Bronx gang called the Vatos sat on the stoop of a Vyse Avenue building in Morrisania on a recent Tuesday afternoon as a black unmarked van carrying plainclothes cops rolled by slowly.The teen and twenty-something gangbangers — affiliated with the larger Mac Baller Brims crew — glared into the van, seemingly unafraid.Captain James Whitlock leads the Bronx Violent Crime Squad about five miles north of where he grew up in Harlem.
Vato crew members, whose 17-year-old associate was shot to death, hang out on Vyse Avenue in the Bronx.Shootings also increased in the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Precinct, which contains the borough’s most crime-ridden precincts. The number of people shot there jumped 22.3% from 103 in 2017 — to 126 in 2023.
“This case in general highlights what’s going on in the streets right now,” said Whitlock, who grew up in Harlem in the 1970s and ’80s and saw families lose loved ones to gang violence. Brooklyn rapper Michael Williams, aka rapper Sheff G, offered gang members cash, jewelry for violence.Werts’s killing was part of a troubling rise in shootings over a two-year span in the neighborhood’s 42nd Precinct. The number of gunshot victims skyrocketed by 228% — from 7 to 23 — between June 1, 2019, and June 1, 2021.
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