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Bridgeport Gang Member Admits Multiple Gang-Related Shootings

UNDREA KIRKLAND, also known as “Spooda,” 25, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to a racketeering offense related to his participation in multiple gang-related shootings.

According to court documents and statements made in court, the FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service and Bridgeport Police have been investigating multiple Bridgeport-based gangs whose members are involved in narcotics trafficking, murder and other acts of violence. Kirkland has been a member of the “Greene Homes Boyz” (“GHB/Hotz”), a gang based in the Charles F. Greene Homes Housing Complex in Bridgeport’s North End, whose members and associates distributed heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and Percocet pills; committed numerous acts of violence against rival gang members and other individuals, and celebrated their criminal conduct on social media websites such as Facebook and YouTube.

In pleading guilty, Kirkland admitted that on May 22, 2015, he shot and attempted to kill “KJ,” a member or associate of the 150 gang, at the intersection of Park Street and Shelton Street on Bridgeport’s East Side; on February 27, 2018, he and others shot and attempted to kill “TH,” “RF” and “GS,” members or associates of the East End gang, at 1306 Stratford Avenue in Bridgeport; and on October 4, 2018, he and others shot and attempted to kill “MS,” a member or associate of the East End gang, inside the Greene Homes housing complex.

Kirkland also appears in a YouTube video, surrounded by other GHB/Hotz and O.N.E. members, possessing a firearm with a 50-round drum, discussing acts of violence, and celebrating a jury acquittal in his state trial for attempted murder.

Kirkland pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years. Judge Arterton scheduled sentencing for December 9, 2021, at which time Kirkland faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.

Kirkland has been detained since April 11, 2019.

This ongoing investigation is being conducted by ATF, the FBI’s Safe Streets and Violent Crimes Task Forces, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, Bridgeport Police Department, Connecticut State Police and the Bridgeport State’s Attorney’s Office, with the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory and the Naugatuck Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Jocelyn C. Kaoutzanis, Rahul Kale, Peter D. Markle, Karen L. Peck and Stephanie T. Levick.