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Ninedee Gang Members Charged in Murder for Hire

Four members of the Brooklyn-based Ninedee Gang have been charged with racketeering, murder, and other crimes in connection with the fatal shooting of a former federal witness in July 2020.

The indictment, unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, charges Quintin Green, Chayanne Fernandez, Maliek Miller, and Kevin Wint with racketeering, murder in-aid-of racketeering, drug trafficking, firearms offenses, and robbery.

The murder victim, Shatavia Walls, had been called as a government witness one year earlier during a federal criminal trial in Brooklyn. She testified that she had been shot by another Pink Houses gang member.

The plan to kill Walls was allegedly hatched by Green, Fernandez, Miller, and others following a dispute on the Fourth of July 2020 over the lighting of fireworks. During a confrontation with the victim, Miller called her a “snitch” and fired a gunshot into the air.

On the evening of July 7, 2020, Ninedee Gang members, including Green and a juvenile male, opened fire on Walls as she walked through a courtyard at the Pink Houses. Walls was shot multiple times and succumbed to the gunshot wounds on July 17, 2020. Ballistic evidence recovered from the scene of the fatal shooting showed that one of the handguns used to kill Walls matched the firearm used by Miller on the Fourth of July.

The defendants posted on Facebook a newspaper article about the murder and claimed credit on behalf of the Ninedee Gang in the days following Walls’ murder. Green is also charged with the Hobbs Act robbery of a Target store on Staten Island on November 3, 2020. Wint is charged with access device fraud, while Fernandez, Miller, and Wint are charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana.

The arrests were announced by Acting United States Attorney Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, FBI Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge Jacqueline Maguire, and NYPD Commissioner Dermot F. Shea. “It is our hope that today’s charges against members of the Ninedee Gang bring some solace to the family of Shatavia Walls as we seek justice for her senseless, cold-blooded murder,” said Kasulis. “This Office and its law enforcement partners are committed to ending the brutality that violent gangs so wantonly inflict on citizens in our communities.”