New York Daily News

5 new suspects in vicious ‘Bushwick Crew’ slayings

- BY EMILIE RUSCOE AND LARRY MCSHANE

Members of a brutal drug gang dubbed the “Bushwick Crew” tortured, killed and torched the corpses of two armed bandits captured during a botched heroin heist, authoritie­s charged Friday.

The 2013 double-murder typified the cold-blooded operations of the gang accused in a supersedin­g Brooklyn Federal Court indictment with operating a violent multimilli­on-dollar heroin ring in Brooklyn and Queens.

“Not only are these gang members pushing deadly drugs in our most vulnerable communitie­s, they’re allegedly killing rivals and bystanders in their attempts to maintain power and control,” said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney of the New York office.

The new 19-count indictment added five new defendants to the charges already brought against four other alleged gangsters — including the horrific March 5, 2013, executions of Gary Lopez and Ruby Superville after their attempt to rob a “Crew” stash house went wildly wrong.

The dealer inside the location with 1 kilo of heroin and $150,000 cash managed to grabbed his gun and shoot the two bandits, court papers said.

Five of the defendants were then summoned to the apartment where the wounded pair were held — with the desperate Lopez at one point managing a fruitless call to 911, begging for help. Lopez was finally shot in the head, and Superville fatally stabbed.

The two men were beaten, tortured, stomped and shot by the sadistic suspects, who then drenched the bodies in gasoline before setting them ablaze in a remote Queens field, prosecutor­s charged.

The new suspects were identified as Maurice (Spaz) Brown, 27; Jaquan (J-Gunna) Cooper, 30; Lance (Ty Mucka) Goodwin, 29; and Tyquan (Ty Goon) Griem, 28 — all of Brooklyn — and Norman (Tito) Marrero, 35, of Harrisburg, Pa. Marrero was in custody in Pennsylvan­ia, while Goodwin was awaiting arraignmen­t in Asheville, N.C.

The five new defendants were affiliated with a violent street gang dubbed the “Young Gunners” and took on a variety of menacing tasks. The gun-toting suspects would “protect and escort the head drug trafficker­s of the Bushwick Crew, collected and enforced drug debts, and shot and killed to retaliate those who offended the crew.”

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