Brooklyn boy, 10, arrested on charges of mugging elderly woman was trying to become gang member: police sources
BY THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, August 14, 2015, 11:16 PM
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KEVIN C. DOWNS FOR NEW YORK DAILThe 10-year-old arrested for robbing an elderly woman and trying to set a Brooklyn store on fire might become one of New York City's youngest gang members. Pictured is the mother of the accused boy.
The 10-year-old terror arrested for robbing an elderly woman and trying to set a Brooklyn store on fire was well on his way to becoming one of the youngest gang members in the city, officials said.
A Brooklyn Crips set is recruiting the 10-year-old, and the arson at a Deals Discount store on Clarkson Ave. in East Flatbush on Tuesday was some kind of initiation, police sources said. That’s pretty much unheard of, according to NYPD Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor of the Juvenile Justice Division.
“It’s uncommon to hear a 10-year-old in a gang,” O’Connor said. “It's not uncommon to hear that kids are being influenced by them.”
KEN MURRAY/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSA Brooklyn Crips set is recruiting the 10-year-old, and the arson at a Deals Discount store on Clarkson Ave. in East Flatbush on Tuesday was some kind of initiation, police sources said.
Violent gangs and street crews were responsible for 60 of the 161 murders — about 37% — during the first half of the year. They were also tied to 283 — or about half —of the 569 shootings that occurred over the same time period, police said.
“They have a total lack of consciousness of human dignity and human life and we are doing all we can to scoop them up,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said last month.
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Last 10 year old gang initiation I remember was when Alfalfa dipped Darla's pigtails in the inkwell.
Damn I'm old.
Damn I'm old.
That's how Michael Brown started
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