Crack goon indicted in gang slays
THE FEDS have indicted the leader of a Brooklyn gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
Nicholas Washington, 32, was charged in a racketeering indictment unsealed Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court with the slayings of two bystanders who were gunned down by trigger-happy members of his G’z Up crack cocaine crew.
Washington is eligible for the death penalty for murder in aid of racketeering in connection with the deaths of Steven Negron on Feb. 10, 2005, outside the Marcy Houses, and Andrell Napper on Aug. 7, 2006, near the Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Both victims were standing near the intended targets when gunmen — allegedly acting on Washington’s orders — opened fire, authorities said.
Negron was caught in a drug turf war, authorities said.
Napper was in the wrong place when G’z Up members retaliated for the earlier killing of Washington’s brother, authorities said.