New York Daily News

Susp cops to torture slaying

- BY LEONARD GREENE

The last suspect pleaded guilty Friday in the grisly gang-related Brooklyn murders of two men whose bodies were burned after they were tortured.

Maurice Brown, 28 — who goes by the street name “Spaz” — was part of the brutal “Bushwick Crew” that killed Gary Lopez and Rudy Superville on March 5, 2013, prosecutor­s said.

The double murder was typical of the cold-blooded operations of the Bushwick Crew gang, which federal prosecutor­s say operated a multimilli­on-dollar heroin ring connected to Mexican drug cartels.

Lopez and Superville were killed execution-style by Bushwick Crew members after their attempt to rob a stash house maintained by the gang went horribly wrong.

A dealer at the stash house — who was holding a kilo of heroin and $150,000 in cash — got the upper hand on the two bandits and shot them.

The dealer then called for more Bushwick Crew reinforcem­ents, including Brown.

At the stash house the crew beat and tortured Lopez and Superville. Lopez was shot dead, and Superville was fatally stabbed.

The killers then doused the victims’ bodies with bleach and ammonia, wrapped them in plastic and drove them to a field near Howard Beach, Queens, officials said. At the field, they soaked the bodies with gasoline and set them on fire.

The assassinat­ions were typical for the Bushwick Crew, who were frequently assigned to escort drug trafficker­s, collect drugs debts, and commit murders and other violence against anyone who interfered with the crew’s business or offended its members, federal prosecutor­s say.

Brown, 28, was the last of seven defendants to plead guilty to a range of violent crimes, including the Brooklyn murders.

Each of the seven suspects faces a maximum life prison sentence.

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