The brutal turf war erupted after Harry Mendoza, a 25-year-old member of LA World — which is based out of the New York City Housing Authority’s Lehman and AK Houses — was fatally shot, along with a 16-year-old girl, at Lexington Avenue and East 128th Street on March 24, 2024, authorities said. Hours later, alleged LA World crew member Xavier Roberts — who is just 16 years old and charged with committing five shootings within a single week — fired five times into the lobby of a building in the nearby Johnson Houses, where the Wuskis are based, piercing the front door window, prosecutors said. “Bullets flying everywhere: on crowded street corners, near innocent bystanders, at playgrounds, near children, through the windows of a NYCHA lobby, and a residential unit, and a bus stop,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said at a news conference.
Author: Kyle Schnitzer, Ben Kochman
Published at: 2025-04-08 22:28:44
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