Two members of a violent Bronx gang chillingly vowed to kill the young son and pregnant wife of a witness who helped convict a crew leader of murder, the feds said Wednesday.
Tyshawn “Ty Boogie” Palmer, 32, and Hassan “Twin” Brown, 34, were nabbed for posting the brazen threats on Instagram during the recent Manhattan federal court trial of Lamar “Black” Williams, 35, a leader of the “Mac Ballers” sect of the Bloods.
“We gon killa season at that lil n—ga school,” the two gangbangers posted alongside a photo of the witness and his young child, a kindergarten student, prosecutors allege.
Palmer, Brown and other Mac Ballers members also posted a photo of the key witnesses’ pregnant wife at her baby shower, and several messages calling the witness a “rat” and a “snitch,” court papers say.
“They issued brazen threats of death for all to see,” said Jay Clayton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, at a news conference Wednesday afternoon. “This is a serious crime, one that undermines all that we hold dear in our justice system.”
The witness testified during the nine-day-trial despite the threats, and Williams was convicted Feb. 11 of all of the charges he’d faced, including that he murdered 28-year-old Rasheed Barton in a targeted hit on East 174th Street and Bronx River Avenue on Aug.11, 2013.
The purported Mac Ballers honcho was found guilty of murder in aid of racketeering, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison, as well as murder through use of a firearm and racketeering conspiracy.
Palmer and Brown were arrested Wednesday morning by members of the US Marshals Service — which is tasked with ensuring the safety of trial witnesses and jurors — in Hackensack, New Jersey and the Bronx, respectively. Both were held without bail after making their first appearance in Manhattan federal court Wednesday afternoon.
Federal agents with the SDNY, as well as NYPD officers, also worked on the case.
“The alleged actions taken by the defendants to intimidate witnesses and their family members with violence are a deliberate attack on the integrity of our judicial system,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement.
Both alleged gangsters face up to life in prison if convicted of witness tampering and witness retaliation.
Attorneys repping them in court could not immediately be reached for comment.
