I will begin voting again for the politician with the balls to bring back the death penalty. No more room in this world for these animals!

"potential life sentence"? This PoS deserves at least a life sentence. BTW? I guess it's okay to "snitch" on oneself?

NJ gang leader admits mistaken identity murder

By Associated Press

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - Added 8 minutes ago
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NEWARK, N..J. ? A New Jersey street gang leader has admitted his role in the 2004 killing an innocent teenager in a case of mistaken identity.

Thirty-year-old Torien Brooks of Paterson, a leader in the Fruit Town and Brick City Brims set of the Bloods, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Newark to a racketeering conspiracy charge. He faces a potential life sentence when he?s sentenced Dec. 14.

Brooks admitted that he and another gang member shot and killed a person they believed was responsible for the earlier shooting of a fellow gang member.

Prosecutors say the victim was actually an innocent teenager, identified only as "M.T." in court papers, who was gunned down in Jersey City.

Three bystanders were hit by stray bullets.

3 gang members get prison terms for killing Jersey City teenager they mistook for murder target six years ago

Friday, July 09, 2010

Nearly six years after a Jersey City teenager was shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity, three gang members were sentenced yesterday to prison terms in federal court for conspiracy to commit murder.

U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler sentenced Matthew "Blood Money" Turner, 29, of Jersey City, and Anthony "Ant" Walker, 28, of Jersey City, to 13 years in prison, and David "D-Brim" Ariste, 28, of East Orange to 10 years in prison.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Walker is a member of the Piru set of the Bloods street gang and an associate of the Fruit Town Brims set of the Bloods. Walker and Ariste are both members of the Fruit Town Brims, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Turner pleaded guilty Aug. 24 to one count of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering and a count of conspiracy to commit an assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering. Walker pleaded guilty to the same charges.

Ariste pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering.

According to court documents, on July 19, 2004, a non-gang member, identified as "SJ," shot at Walker near the corner of Wilkinson Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City.

Walker, Turner, Ariste and others agreed to retaliate. Turner went to look for SJ, according to court documents, and reported he was on Wilkinson Avenue, and Ariste also went to look for SJ.

Michael Taylor, 17, who authorities believe the gang members mistook for SJ, was shot multiple times on the corner of Wilkinson Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive that night.

A 3-year-old boy and 23-year-old man at a nearby family cookout were wounded by stray shots in the violent attack.

Chesler also sentenced the three men to three years of supervised release. The judge ordered Ariste's sentence to run consecutively with a 68-year sentence he is serving on a gang-related murder in Passaic County.

MELISSA HAYES

Gang indicted in teen's 2004 gun murder

Thursday, March 01, 2007
By ALI WINSTON
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Some 21/2 years after 17-year-old Michael Taylor was gunned down on a Jersey City street corner, five members of a Jersey City-based set of the Bloods street gang have been indicted on federal charges in connection with his murder.

Taylor was shot multiple times - possibly in a case of mistaken identity - just after 10 p.m. on July 19, 2004, at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Wilkinson Avenue.

Stray shots wounded a 3-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man at a nearby family cook-out. A fourth person also was shot at but wasn't injured, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office.

Charged with murder, murder conspiracy and four counts each of assault with a dangerous weapon, all in aid of racketeering, were Emanuel "Killer E" or "Emo" Jones, 22, of Jersey City; Torien "B.G." or "T-Bird" Brooks, 26, of Paterson; Anthony "Ant" Walker, 24, of Jersey City; David "D-Brim" Ariste, 25, of East Orange; and Matthew "Blood Money" Turner, 28, of Jersey City.

The five are reputed members of the Fruit Town Brims, a set of the Bloods operating in Jersey City and Paterson. Jones and Brooks were "status" members or leaders, while the rest were members and associates, according to authorities.

Because the charges were linked through racketeering, the five were charged Tuesday in federal court in Newark.

Ariste only faces federal charges, but Jones, Brooks, Walker and Turner had previously been charged by the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office. Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said he would drop the local charges today after consulting with the U.S. Attorney's Office.

A number of the defendants face additional charges on the state level. Turner is charged with aggravated assault in Hudson County for a June 2006 attack on three corrections officers - during his January hearing, Turner made an obscene gesture to a Journal photographer.

Ariste faces a separate gang-related murder charge in Passaic County. Brooks, who is currently serving a five-year sentence for a Passaic County robbery, did not appear in court on Tuesday.

Investigators believe Taylor was mistaken for someone who had earlier shot at Walker. Jones, who had been given a description of Walker's attacker, mistook Taylor for the gunman and opened fire, authorities say. Witnesses say Taylor died in the street, face-down in a pool of blood.

Taylor's shooting prompted outrage from members of the community, who described the former guard for St. Mary's High School basketball team as "a very good kid."

"An innocent young man was cut down, caught in the senseless cycle of gang violence," U.S. Attorney Chris Christie said. "We intend to bring the full weight of federal prosecution against these ruthless individuals."

The Fruit Town Brims, who established themselves in New Jersey during the mid-1990s, take their name from a section of the city of Compton, Calif., that has streets named after fruits.

They are the second Jersey City gang to be prosecuted on racketeering charges by the U.S. Attorney's Office. In 2005, 26 members of the infamous Lex Mob gang pleaded guilty to various federal charges, including racketeering conspiracy.