14 ‘Brims’ gang members busted for murder, bloody shootings in Brooklyn takedown

Members of a violent pack that terrorized respective Brooklyn neighborhoods for years were arrested and charged successful transportation with a slew of shootings, including 1 that killed a rival pack subordinate and others that wounded guiltless bystanders, authorities said.

The 14 members of the 59 Brims/Bloodhound Brims pack who were arrested were liable for 19 shootings successful and astir Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay, gunplay that near 9 radical injured — including 4 guiltless bystanders.

One of those shootings, connected Oct. 31, 2022, astatine the Nostrand Houses successful Sheepshead Bay, caused the death of Jamel Nicholson, 25, a salient drill rapper, and injured his 19-year-old girlfriend, who suffered gunshot wounds to the thigh and little abdomen. She remained successful captious information for weeks.

That shooting was portion of an all-out vicious pack warfare that near rivals and residents wounded and bloodied, and parents and children ducking for cover, officials said.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez with Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch speaking to the property regarding the results of a semipermanent investigation, astatine the territory attorney’s bureau astatine 350 Jay St. successful Brooklyn connected Wednesday. (Shawn Inglima / New York Daily News)

“Today’s takedown highlights the NYPD’s relentless combat against unsafe thoroughfare gangs that terrorize our neighborhoods with weapon violence,” said Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

The NYPD’s associated cognition with the Brooklyn DA’s Office, she said, netted 14 arrests and the removal of 18 amerciable firearms “from the hands of criminals, including repeat, convulsive offenders who had nary concern being backmost retired connected the streets successful Brooklyn.”

The probe stretched backmost to February 2021.

Devonte Lewis

Devonte Lewis. (Obtained by the Daily News)

The Brims thoroughfare pack feuded with rival crews, including Folk Nation, FNO, WOOO and GWAY, a subset of the Gorilla Stone Bloods.

Officials tied overmuch of the unit to the April 29, 2021, homicide of purported Bloodhound Brim pack subordinate Davonte Lewis, a.k.a. Dior, extracurricular his precocious schoolhouse successful Midwood.

The 17-year-old was backmost astatine schoolhouse aft weeks of distant classes brought connected by the COVID-19 pandemic erstwhile helium was gunned down by 2 equipped teenage rivals waiting for him extracurricular the Urban Dove Charter School successful Midwood astatine dismissal.

The shooting sparked an aggravated warfare signaled done euphony videos, recorded jailhouse conversations, cellphone texts and Facebook and Instagram posts, officials said.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez holds a confiscated weapon portion addressing the property connected the results of a semipermanent investigation, astatine the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office astatine 350 Jay St. successful Brooklyn connected Wednesday. (Shawn Inglima/New York Daily News)

A substance connection from 1 of the defendants adjacent chastised different pack subordinate implicit a May 29, 2022, shooting that failed to spot the intended victims successful “critical condition.”

“Gun unit deed a grounds debased past twelvemonth due to the fact that of strategical enforcement and pack takedowns similar today’s, which removed 14 alleged shooters liable for a staggering level of unit successful Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay,” said Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez. “These defendants allegedly carried retired 19 abstracted shootings, murdered a rival and wounded guiltless bystanders — lawlessly endangering our communities.”

Omogoriola Omotosho. (U.S. Attorney’s Office)

Charges against those arrested see murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to perpetrate execution and weapons possession.

One of the much notorious shootings occurred extracurricular a sneaker store successful Bay Ridge connected June 23, 2023. Cops said Omogoriola Omotosho and a chap pack subordinate were determination for the merchandise of a caller sneaker erstwhile they spotted a rival pack subordinate wrong the store.

After they watched him permission the spot and get into a parked car, they opened occurrence astatine the vehicle, missing their target, but wounding idiosyncratic other successful the car, arsenic good arsenic a idiosyncratic successful enactment waiting to bargain sneakers.

Omotosho, 21, was besides indicted successful transportation with a Feb. 8, 2022, shooting astatine a residential gathering successful Coney Island. Cops said helium and an subordinate followed a rival pack subordinate into the gathering and opened occurrence wrong a lobby filled with residents of each ages, sending radical ducking for screen successful fearfulness for their lives.

Miraculously, nary 1 was injured.

Originally Published: February 5, 2025 astatine 4:36 PM EST