Members of a violent syndicate known as the Slaughtery gang were slapped with a 176-count indictment for their involvement in a conspiracy to terrorize and assassinate rival gang members in the Bronx, Bronx DA Darcel Clark announced Friday.
The 20 defendants – 17 men and 3 women – participated in a raft of violent crimes that included 14 shootings, a gunpoint carjacking, and stabbings — including slashing a rival gang member inside Bronx Supreme Court — that terrorized the Fordham Heights, Kingsbridge, Highbridge, and Morris Heights neighborhoods, said Clark.
“A half-mile swath along the Grand Concourse became a corridor of carnage as these defendants allegedly fired guns again and again, wounding their rivals and at least four bystanders in mindless violence,” the DA said.
Taking their name from the Slattery Playground at E. 183rd St. near Valentine Ave, members of the Slaughtery crew posted drill rap videos on YouTube mocking rival gang members while bragging about their crimes on Instagram and Facebook, according to Clark.
The Slaughtery crew’s crimes included a June 18, 2020, shooting, when gang members Nasiem King and Dayron Williams charged a group of people playing cards on Morris Ave. near E. 184th St. guns blazing, Clark said.
King fired at least six shots at the card players, striking three bystanders before hightailing it with Williams in tow, the prosecutor said.
Williams was struck by return fire from a rival gang member minutes after the attack, and King traded shots with the shooter as their hit erupted into a gunfight, according to Clark.
King joined fellow Slaughtery gang member Feenix Charley in an attack on a rival gangbanger at E. 194th St. and Briggs Ave. on July 11, 2020. Charley fired 4 shots at their adversary, but hit a passerby instead, Clark said.
The Bronx Supreme Court slashing occurred on Jan. 27, 2023, when Slaughtery gang members including Charley spotted members of a rival crew and attacked. Charley used a sharp object to slash a woman involved in the feud, who received 35 stitches for the wound on her lower abdomen, said Clark.
The defendants — of whom 11 have been arraigned before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Tara Collins, with the rest awaiting arraignment — are charged variously with second-degree conspiracy, attempted murder in the second degree, first-degree robbery, first-degree assault, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, attempted gang assault in the first degree, second-degree robbery, and other related charges.
Of the defendants who have already been arraigned, six were remanded without bail, with bail being set for the remainder at amounts between $250,000 and $600,000.
Originally Published:
