11 members of rival gangs charged with conspiracy to murder

Eleven members of rival Brooklyn gangs have been charged in connection with seven shootings, including the death of Shaheim Rogers, following a joint investigation by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and the NYPD, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Thursday.

The suspects – seven members of the Stain Gang and four members of a rival gang, the Albany Gang – were charged in separate indictments with conspiracy to commit murder, weapons possession and related acts of violence.

The series of wild shootings and targeted attacks was the byproduct of a blood feud that sparked when members of the Albany Gang killed Stain Gang member Tyquan Howard on May 12, 2020, Gonzalez said.

The gang animosity culminated in Rogers’ murder on August 10, 2023, when he was gunned down along with fellow Stain Gang member Olujimi Lucas after suspect Ibrahima Barry and other Albany Gang members combed the Stain Gang’s territory for their rivals.

The gangs had previously engaged in a tit-for-tat that left two people injured after an Albany Gang member shot a rival gang member in the abdomen on March 14, 2022, hitting an innocent bystander sitting outside the Stain Gang headquarters on Sterling Place, just off Rochester Ave.

After emergency responders loaded the wounded Stain Gang member into an ambulance, other gang members went to the Albany Houses on Troy Ave. seeking revenge, but only managed to put a few bullet holes in a deli, Gonzalez said.

In another failed attack, Stain Gang member Jahrell Madison opened fire on Albany gang member Elija McDonald’s car on Sterling Place near Utica Ave. as he drove through his rival’s territory on July 29, 2021, prosecutors said.

The investigation was conducted by the District Attorney’s Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau and the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Violent Crime Squad.