SIX ALLEGED MEMBERS OF THE “SLATTERY” GANG INDICTED FOR MURDER OF 14-YEAR-OLD BOY IN 2022

Defendants Allegedly Were Targeting Victim’s Brother for Disrespecting Another Murder Victim  

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that five men and a woman alleged to be members of the “Slattery” aka “Slaughtery” street gang have been indicted on second-degree Murder, Manslaughter, Attempted Murder and other related charges in the killing of a 14-year-old boy in a hail of bullets meant for his older brother. 

District Attorney Clark said, “These defendants, who were teens at the time of the incident, allegedly fired nine shots at a 16-year-old boy purportedly because he disrespected a boy killed a few months earlier, in social media postings. Instead, the target’s younger brother was killed in this vicious cycle of gun violence. His tragic death was also mocked on social media. We must change the mindset of youth to value every human life.” 

District Attorney Clark said the defendants, Yaselis Feliz (aka ‘Yaya’), 20, Diondre Martin (aka ‘Dread’, aka ‘Rasta’), 22, Juan Gomez (aka ‘Bando’), 23, David Marte (aka ‘Polo’), 20, Ethan Lopez (aka ‘E Dot’), 19, and Christian Cruz (aka ‘Flaco’), 22, were charged with second-degree Murder, first-degree Manslaughter, Attempted Murder in the second-degree, Attempted Assault in the first-degree, four counts of second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon, second-degree Robbery, first-degree Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle, fourth-degree Criminal Possession of Stolen Property, second-degree Conspiracy and fourth-degree Conspiracy. 

Feliz was arraigned on March 27, 2026, by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Grace Park. She was remanded and is due back in court on April 20, 2026. David Marte was arraigned on March 26, 2026, by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Grace Park. He was remanded and is due back in court on April 1, 2026. Christian Cruz was arraigned on March 27, 2026, by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Pamela Goldsmith. He was remanded. He is due back in court on June 18, 2026. Lopez and Gomez are currently incarcerated on other matters and will be arraigned at a later date. Martin has not yet been apprehended.

According to the investigation, at approximately 9:13 p.m. on November 30, 2022, on Morris Avenue, the defendants, acting in concert with one another, allegedly fired nine shots from two semi-automatic pistols at Supreme Shabazz, then 16 years old, as he was walking with his brother, Prince, 14. Prince was struck in the chest. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead. 

According to the investigation, the defendants fled in a vehicle that was allegedly carjacked five days prior. While driving away from the scene of the shooting the defendants allegedly recorded a cell phone video of themselves bragging about the shooting and declaring defendant Diondre Martin to be a “top shooter.” Then, Yaselis Feliz allegedly sent via text message a screenshot of the Citizen App alert about Prince’s shooting to Christian Cruz, and Cruz allegedly texted the co-defendants that they shot the wrong person.

The investigation determined that this shooting occurred on the birthday of Calvin Aaron, who was killed in rival gang territory in Manhattan on July 1, 2022.

District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Brandon Ravelo of the NYPD Gun Violence Suppression Unit for his work in the case. 

An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.