B’klyn fam mourns man slain in 19-shot barrage at project
A Brooklyn man fatally shot in a hail of 19 bullets outside a housing development was mourned Monday by his devastated wife as a devoted father of four.
Andre Kittles, 31, was killed outside the Marlboro Houses on Avenue W near W. 12th St. in Gravesend around 11:45 p.m. Friday.
He was hit several times, including in the chest, and rushed to Coney Island Hospital but couldn’t be saved.
Kittles, who police sources said was connected to a gang, was indicted in 2015 as part of a drug- and gun-dealing ring in Coney Island and Williamsburg. consulting jobs.
She singled out 11 scenes in the documentary as defamatory, but Castel winnowed the list down to five that Fairstein could plausibly allege defamation. In one, she’s portrayed as directing the NYPD to round up young Black men in Harlem in a search for the suspects.
“Let’s get an army of blue up in Harlem. You go into those projects and you stop every little thug you see. You bring every kid who was in the park last night,” Huffmanas-Fairstein says in one scene in the series. Fairstein maintains she ordered no such roundup, and quoting her using the word “thug” portrays her as a racist.
Netflix said it is “confident that we’ll prevail against Ms. Fairstein’s few remaining claims,” Reuters reported.
Fairstein’s lawyer Andrew Miltenberg said he was “exceptionally pleased” by the ruling.
“We are glad that Ms. Fairstein now has the opportunity to pursue her claims with respect to five critical scenes in the series that falsely depict Ms. Fairstein engaging in coercive and discriminatory conduct in order to build a case against innocent young men of color,” he said.
But to his wife, Melia Clarke, 28, Kittles was first and foremost a family man.
“He was a great man and a great father. He was always there for me and always there for the kids,” he said. The two have four children, and he just started a job as a flag captain for a construction company.
“We don’t know what happened,” she said. “It’s very, very hard. We’re trying to cope, taking it a day at a time.”
Police have made no arrests in Kittles’ slaying.