Three Charged in Brooklyn Boy's Killing

The indictment is a set of charges, not a verdict. A 12-year-old boy is dead, and a woman in the car was shot and lived. If a jury convicts them, the counts carry up to life in prison or the death penalty.

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment Thursday charging Ousmane Diallo, 24, Mayel Bussereth, 26, and Jonah Luc, 25, in the drive-by shooting that killed a 12-year-old boy in East Flatbush. They were set to be arraigned before Magistrate Judge Marcia M. Henry.

Prosecutors say the three, members and associates of a gang called ICG Babiez, drove a black Mercedes-Benz from Crown Heights to East 56th Street and Linden Boulevard on the evening of March 31, 2022, looking for a rival, and that Diallo and Bussereth fired into a parked sedan they had misidentified while Luc was in the car. The boy was in the front passenger seat. He was shot in the head and chest and died at the scene. A woman in the car was shot and survived. An 8-year-old girl in the back seat was not hurt.

The indictment charges Diallo and Bussereth with murder in aid of racketeering and with assault and firearms counts. It charges Luc with assault and firearms counts connected to the boy's death. If convicted, each man faces up to life in prison or the death penalty.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.