New York Daily News

Crack goon indicted in gang slays

- John Marzulli

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.

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