Crime
Neighbour shoots and kills a father and stepson over commotion in a flat
According to authorities, a Brooklyn bodybuilder and his stepson were shot dead in the hallway outside their apartment in an ongoing quarrel with their enraged downstairs neighbour, who invaded their house to complain about the noise.
A raged resident of the Flatbush Gardens Complex in East Flatbush shot the victim’s 47-year-old father, Bladimy Mathurin, and the victim’s 27-year-old stepson, Chin Wai Mode, in the fourth-floor corridor outside their apartment at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, according to NYPD.
“That guy killed my son, my husband,” Marie Luc Delille, 48, said from her apartment, where blood was still pooled outside the door. “That guy terrified my family. The only family I have, my husband and my children. I have nobody else.”
Delille’s small daughter witnessed the horror.
“My daughter needs therapy,” she said. “That happened in front of her.”
According to a police source, cops obtained security tape showing the shooter, who lives on the third floor of the apartment complex on Brooklyn Ave., storming upstairs to confront his neighbours for creating a disturbance.
According to investigators, the victims and their irritated neighbour got into an altercation that spilt into the hallway. According to investigators, Mathurin went into his home at one point, only to reappear a short time later carrying scissors.
The gunman then grabbed his firearm and opened fire, hitting both males in the head and back, according to authorities.
According to Delille, the argument began with the downstairs neighbour beating on the ceiling before going upstairs to confront them.
“When he banged, my husband banged back,” Delille said. “Then he feels so upset, he comes and kicks the door. My husband goes outside. That’s when he just grabbed his gun and blew my husband and blew my son.”
Delille claimed she tried to intervene before the bullets were discharged.
“I went outside,” she recounted. “I tell my husband, ‘Leave him alone. Come. Come. Get inside.’ I could hear a voice telling me, {to} get inside. When I was turning my back, he shot my husband. I didn’t know of my son. I thought my son was inside. My husband went out first. Had an argument with him. That’s when my son went out.”
Delille stated that they had previous encounters with the individual. Her neighbour, she claimed, was biased towards her family because they were Haitian.
“Haitian. Look what you did to your country,” she says the shooter said to her previously. “I be like, ‘Yeah. Haitian people give you freedom. Haitian people give Black people freedom.’”
After the shooting, the gunman took an elevator down to the lobby and fled the building heading east towards Brooklyn Ave., cops said.
From the scene, investigators collected nine.45-caliber shot casings and five bullet fragments.
Police described the gunman as a dark-skinned bald male wearing a blue jacket and tan boots.
Mathurin was the father of Delille’s three younger children. They’d been together for 19 years. Her bodybuilder spouse worked as a school bus driver and an Uber driver.
“I don’t know if I’m going to survive,” she said. “I don’t feel safe. I need safety. I need safety. I was planning to move.
Delille described her kid as kind and sociable.
“He respects people,” she said. “Everybody. He would hug you. Yesterday, I tell him, ‘Chin Wai, can you make me a soup?’”
Neighbours and family members went by the blood to console Delille and her family. Mike Felix, Mode’s biological father, was among them in attendance.
“He’s a boy who never has problems,” Felix said. “He’s a good boy. He’s not a troublemaker. He stays in the house. His mother keeps him here. He goes to school. He comes back home.”
Mode’s 10-year-old sister, Nhayalla Lister, said she saw her father and her brother’s final moments.
“The guy downstairs keeps banging every time we make noise and my dad banged back,” she said. “And then the guy came upstairs and kicked our door and then my dad came out. He confronted him. The guy had a gun and shot my brother and my dad.”
“I was inside the house when I heard the ‘pow pow,’ the gunshots,” the girl said. “And then when it stopped I looked outside and I saw my dad on the floor. I was considering where’s my brother and I looked farther and he was by the staircase.”
The Vanderveer Estates, a 59-unit privately owned complex established in the late 1940s, was once known as the Vanderveer Estates. It was Barbra Streisand’s childhood home. It was renamed more than a decade ago after being plagued by crime and poor circumstances in succeeding decades.
It is also the hometown of actor Michael K. Williams. Williams, who achieved to prominence as Omar Little, the shotgun-wielding stickup guy on “The Wire,” died in 2021 of a fentanyl overdose.
Police have detained two suspects who were seen in a viral video brandishing firearms and threatening victims who resisted them during their robberies.
On November 19, 2023, police apprehended the two suspects.
The men, Kwame Sarpong and Ibrahim Mohammed were shown in a viral video holding machetes and knives and threatening anyone who tried to stop them.
The two suspects, known as ‘Aputuogya gangsters,’ were apprehended in their hideaway in Aputuogya, Kumasi, Ashanti Region.
They are now in police custody, collaborating with investigations.
The Koforidua Circuit Court B has remanded four military soldiers, an Immigration Officer, and a private security guard in police prison for armed robbery in Akyem Akanteng in the Lower West Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region.
Sergeant Mensah Dominic, 41, and L/Cpl Tetteh Wayo, 43, are both from the Jubilee House. L/CPL Nyarko Bernard, 28 years old, is stationed in the ABF’s Tamale command unit, while PTE Eric Anim, 23 years old, is stationed at the 11th Mechanised Infantry Battalion in Accra but is now on leave.
Richard Okyere, L.C.O. 27-year-old immigration officer stationed at the Ministry of Interior, and 28-year-old Kelvin Marfo, a private security guard at the 5th Hour Mining Company in Akyem Akwatia.
According to the prosecution, on November 10, 2023, the immigration officer, Richard Okyere, who was driving a Mitsubishi L200 with the registration number GS – 1116- 11, picked up the two military officers at their duty post at the Jubilee House before proceeding to pick up the other two military men at Pokuase and the last suspect at Asamankese before heading to Akyem Akanteng.
At 3:00 a.m. on November 11, 2023, the suspects armed with military guns and dressed in military clothes stormed the residence of the complainant, 55-year-old Ofori Samuel, a Cocoa buying clerk in Akyem Akanteng, and demanded GH100,000.00 in exchange for his life.
The complainant, who was terrified by the firearms, indicated that he had no money but could pay them 10,000 cash, which could be acquired by selling a 5 gramme of gold ore in his possession, which was valued at GH 29,000. The suspects then forced the complainant into his room, stole the gold, and fled.
The complainant immediately phoned the Akwatia Police Commander and an Osenase police officer to report the crime. However, luck evaded the culprits, and they were captured by authorities at the Osenase police checkpoint.
After being brought to the Akwatia Police Station, the suspects were found with two military rifles with serial numbers A0082460 and A0056937, four magazines, 62 rounds of live ammo, and a helmet.
According to the prosecution, during interrogations of the accused persons by the District Commander in the presence of other police officers, the first accused person handed over to the commander the 5 pounds of gold ore that the complainant previously reported was robbed from him by the accused persons.
The docket was taken over by the RCID, Kibi, the same day, along with the aforementioned exhibit of 5 pounds of gold for further examination.
Meanwhile, the Mitsubishi L200 with licence plate GS 1116-11 used by the accused has been detained at the Eastern South Regional Headquarters for further action.
The prosecution further stated that upon receipt of the case docket, all of the accused people’ departments were notified.
The suspects were remanded by the court presided over by Matilda Ribeiro to reappear on November 28th, 2023 after prosecution Assistant State Attorney Micdad Iddrisu prayed the court to remand the suspects to allow the police to continue their investigations.
Crime
Ashanti region: Two people killed and several injured in fight between forestry officers and miners
Following an alleged fight between forestry officials and miners at Mfante near Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North municipality of the Ashanti region, two people were reportedly shot dead, while two others were injured.
The event happened on Friday at a community mining site in the region when forestry authorities allegedly raided the location and shot two of the people defending the site dead.
Two of the miners were also injured and are being treated at the Tepa Government Hospital.
The government, through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, initiated the community mining initiative at Mfante in 2021, with the goal of employing 2000 people in the region.
However, there have apparently been disagreements in recent years between forestry inspectors and miners over mining activity in the region.
Forestry authorities have argued that the aforementioned region is inside the forestry zone and that the miners lack legal documentation to back up their claim that the area has been designated for community mining.
As a result of this, when forestry officials rushed the location on Friday, a confrontation followed, resulting in the fatalities.
According to Abu Issah, Assembly member of the Mfante electoral region, who verified the event to Citi News, the inhabitants are living in dread as a result of the incident, and many of them have begun abandoning the area.
As a result, he is urging the government to resolve the matter by providing the relevant documents on the community mining project in the region.
Police are presently investigating the event, and the grieving family is demanding justice.
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