"That staircase has been dark for a long time. ![]() I could tell it was the hallway because of the sound."īurroughs agreed that the dark stairwell is a major safety problem. "Not necessarily in the building, not necessarily that close. "We're used to hearing sounds," seventh floor resident Angela Burroghs said. "All I heard was a boom," eighth floor resident Ernestine Terrell told CBS2's Andrea Grymes. "(He) just happened to be in that hallway as the officers were entering the adjacent hallway one landing up was not engaged in any criminal activity of any type." "Let me reinforce – at this point, the deceased is, based on our preliminary investigation, totally innocent," Bratton said. Why Officer Liang had his gun drawn along with a flashlight in the first place was to be a question for him, and police late Friday had not yet been able to speak with him because of union rules.īut as WCBS 880's Irene Cornell reported, Bratton emphasized that police believe there was every indication that he never intended to fire a shot at all. The family of Gurley's girlfriend, Melissa Butler, also told 1010 WINS' Glenn Schuck that by her account, the officers said nothing at the time the gun went off. At 11:19 p.m., the police lieutenant and supervisor arrived on the scene.īut it was after that, at 11:20 p.m., when Liang and his partner radioed for help. and the ambulance was dispatched a minute later. Police said the first 911 call came in at 11:15 p.m. He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.īecause the officers did not initially realize that the shot had hit anyone, there was about a five-minute delay in their radio call of a man shot, sources said. Police said the two officers were descending the dimly lit stairwell, when Akai Gurley, 28, who entered the stairwell from the seventh floor, a story down, with his girlfriend.Īt that point, rookie Officer Peter Liang apparently accidentally discharged one shot from his service weapon, striking Gurley in the chest, Bratton said. But the night before, police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the hallway was pitch black – but for the light that would have been provided from the hallway behind the door to the eighth floor. On Friday evening, the lights had been fixed in the stairwell in the Pink Houses building where the incident happened. Akai Gurley, man shot to death inside the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing complex by a rookie police officer. Thursday as two officers were patrolling inside a building in the development on Linden Boulevard, CBS2's Sonia Rincon reported. “Shatavia been a rat and she still ratting,” read a flyer obtained by The News that was slapped up on all 22 buildings across Pink Houses as Walls prepared to testify at the Brooklyn Federal Court trial.The incident happened around 11:15 p.m. She faced “significant witness intimidation,” prosecutors wrote. ![]() Walls’ status as a Pink Houses snitch was sealed. “Nobody gets along anymore,” Walls lamented on the witness stand, while testifying against Boykins in 2019.īoykins was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for illegal gun possession. It wasn’t until she was charged in a drug case along with her husband that she began cooperating with the feds, saying she wanted to “clear the air,” court papers show. Walls claimed he then got up, opened fire and ran off, prosecutors said.īut Walls did not immediately tell detectives about Boykins. Evidence at trial showed the two got in a brawl, Walls punched and tackled Boykins to the ground. In October 2017, she was shot twice through the thigh by an alleged member of the Loopy Gang, Shakeem Boykins, following a beef rooted in building rivalries at the Pink Houses, she testified. ![]() Walls played by her own rules, speaking with police on numerous occasions about violent crime in the neighborhood. She was also a woman who held down two jobs and took care of her aunt when she wasn’t dealing marijuana or helping her husband get a gun.
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