Philmon Deshawn Chambers, Murder, Racketeering, Georgia 2024

Alleged Gangster Disciples members charged with murder, federal racketeering charges in Georgia.

ATLANTA, GA – May 6, 2024 – Five alleged members of the Gangster Disciples, a national gang with roots in Chicago, Illinois, dating back to the 1970s, have been indicted on murder and racketeering charges in Georgia.

Philmon Deshawn Chambers, 33, of Atlanta; Andrea Paige Browner, 27, of Athens, Georgia; Lesley Chappell Green, 34, of Stone Mountain, Georgia; Robert Maurice Carlisle, 33, of Lithonia, Georgia; and Shabazz Larry Guidry, 27, of Decatur, Georgia, are each charged with Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organization (RICO) conspiracy.

Chambers and Browner are additionally charged with murder in aid of racketeering; the carry, use and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence; and use of a firearm resulting in death.

The indictment alleges that after the murder of a Gangster Disciple member, other members allegedly sought to identify and retaliate against those responsible for the victim’s death. Chambers allegedly followed Rodriguez Apollo Rucker to his Athens residence where he shot and killed Rucker.

According to the indictment, after learning that police suspected Chambers of Rucker’s murder, Chambers and Browner fled from Georgia to Texas. In order to cover up this crime, Chambers allegedly ordered that fellow gang members he suspected of cooperating with law enforcement, Derrick Ruff and Joshua Jackson, be killed. Defendants Green, Guidry and Carlisle allegedly shot and killed Ruff and Jackson and left their bodies in a storage unit in Lawrenceville, Georgia, where they were discovered four months later.

The case is being investigated by FBI Athens Resident Agency Middle Georgia Safe Streets Gang Task Force, Athens-Clarke County Police Department, and Gwinnett County Police Department.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Morrison of the Middle District of Georgia is prosecuting the case.

Chambers, Browner, Green, Carlisle, and Guidry are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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