Suspected ‘Hoolie’ Gang Member Charged in Relation to Toddler’s Fatal Shooting in Brooklyn
Authorities in New York City charged a suspect on Wednesday believed to be connected to the fatal shooting of a toddler boy who was struck by a stray bullet while attending a cookout party with his family in Brooklyn last summer, police announced Thursday.
Dashawn Austin, 25, was taken into custody on charges that include murder and attempted murder for allegedly shooting and killing 1-year-old Davell Gardner on July 12, 2020, an incident that sent shockwaves throughout the state.
Gardner was seated in his stroller at the cookout party located near the Raymond Bush Playground in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood when several men started firing shots at the direction of the party, authorities said at the time.
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The suspect in the fatal stray-bullet shooting of 1-year-old Davell Gardner in Brooklyn was charged this week in connection to the tot’s death in July, police said Thursday.
Dashawn Austin, 25, was hit with multiple raps including depraved indifference murder of a child under 11 years old in the shooting of the infant during a cookout in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said. Davell Gardner Sr., 25, the father of the baby Davell Gardner Jr., killed in July in a park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York, celebrates his life on Sept. 12, 2020. (Photo by LAURA BONILLA CAL/AFP via Getty Images)
Arrest made in fatal shooting of 1-year-old Davell Gardner, Jr. at cookout in Brooklyn
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Dashawn Austin, 25, has been arrested in connection with the death of Davell Gardner, Jr. This is a powerful moment of justice, Mayor Bill de Blasio said of the arrest. The mayor recounted spending time with the boy s mother and grandmother and said, It was just the most heartbreaking thing in the world.
The 1-year-old boy was struck by a bullet when shots rang out on July 12, 2020, during a cookout near the Raymond Bush Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Police say two gunmen dressed in black walked up and fired several bullets before fleeing. Little Davell was shot in his abdomen and died from his injuries. Three others were also shot and wounded.
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