Brooklyn MDC prisoner set up murder-for-hire that killed innocent bystander

A antheral locked up astatine Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center hired hitmen to weapon down a rival, but they failed and killed an guiltless bystander, national investigators said Thursday.

Dajahn McBean, 29, was already behind bars for a 2017 gang-related shooting erstwhile helium cooked up the scheme, the Justice Department said successful a property release.

According to the feds, McBean worked with Karl Smith, 26, and Chelsey Harris, 23, to people a idiosyncratic rival past December, luring the antheral to nightclubs to acceptable him up for a fatal shooting.

However, the hired guns missed their people — who was not named successful tribunal documents — and alternatively killed his girlfriend, 28-year-old Clarisa Burgos.

“McBean allegedly directed this execution crippled utilizing a contraband cellphone from wrong a national jailhouse portion waiting to beryllium sentenced for a abstracted gang-related shooting,” said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams.

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Dajahn McBean, besides known arsenic Jeezy Mula

McBean, besides known by his rap persona Jeezy Mula, admitted successful a September 2023 plea woody that helium was a subordinate of Brooklyn’s Real Ryte gang. He pleaded blameworthy to battle successful transportation with a January 2017 shooting — different murder-for-hire plot, this clip with the shooters mistaking an guiltless bystander for their intended people and earnestly wounding him.

While down bars, McBean communicated with Smith and Harris to acceptable up different shooting successful December 2023, according to the feds.

Their archetypal effort occurred connected Christmas Eve, erstwhile Smith and Harris lured the unfortunate to a nine successful Queens, the feds said. The hired hitmen changeable the intended target’s car aggregate times, but helium escaped uninjured.

Two nights later, the antheral and Burgos were sitting successful the car extracurricular a antithetic nine successful Queens erstwhile an estimated 3 men opened occurrence connected the vehicle, according to investigators.

The intended people was changeable aggregate times but survived his injuries and drove to a adjacent constabulary precinct. But Burgos, sitting successful the rider seat, was shot successful the caput and killed.

“Somebody was looking for him,” Burgos’ aunt, Sonia Gallart, told the Daily News at the time. “Be cautious with the person, nary substance who it is. Study the idiosyncratic you’re going retired with.”

Burgos, a Fort Greene resident, had a 4-year-old son.

Clarisa Burgos was killed erstwhile aggregate gunmen opened occurrence connected a car adjacent 127th St. and Liberty Ave. successful Queens connected Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023.

Smith and Harris, portion not locked up astatine the clip of the attack, were detained separately up of Thursday’s announcement, according to the Justice Department. All 3 suspects were charged with murder-for-hire conspiracy.

Brooklyn MDC, which has precocious drawn headlines for lodging Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been notorious for respective issues, including understaffing and mistreatment of prisoners.