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NYC man freed on bail despite gun charge admits to fatal shooting
Tyrek Williams admitted to shooting two people — killing one — while out on bail on felony firearm charges, according to police and sources.
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NYC man freed on bail despite gun charge admits to fatal shooting
By
Tina Moore and
Gabrielle Fonrouge
August 30, 2021 4:23pm
Updated
An allegedly trigger-happy Brooklyn man admitted to shooting two people — killing one — while out on bail on felony firearm charges, according to police and sources.
Tyrek Williams, 20, was first busted last September for allegedly having a loaded handgun on him — but seven months after he made bail on that case, he allegedly shot a 26-year-old in the Bronx on April 29, cops said Monday.
About three months later on Aug. 18, Williams allegedly gunned down D’Andre Johnson, 24, near the corner of East 149th Street and Concord Avenue, cops said.
When police arrived at the scene, they found Johnson lying on the ground, bleeding from gunshot wounds to his back and arm, police sources said. He was later pronounced dead at Lincoln Medical Center.
Williams was nabbed on Saturday around 5 p.m. and allegedly confessed to both shootings — telling investigators that he fired a gun in Johnson’s direction, police sources said.
He claimed that a second shooter, a 17-year-old male, was also involved but it’s not immediately clear whether he was taken into custody, according to police sources.
Williams was also grilled about the April 29 shooting — and allegedly admitted that he was the gunman, telling cops that he shot in that victim’s direction, the sources said.
He was hit with murder, manslaughter and criminal use of a firearm charges related to Johnson’s death and attempted murder and criminal use of a firearm for the non-fatal incident in April, police said.
Williams was free to terrorize the Bronx after his family posted his $7,500 bail bond in the September gun case, his lawyer, Edward Dudley, and the Bronx District Attorney’s Office said.
The attorney said Williams was among several others taken into custody when the loaded gun was found in a car but it’s still not clear who the firearm belonged to.
“The gun was not found on anyone in particular so the case is still pending. It has not been resolved, no one has plead guilty, that’s all I can say,” Dudley told The Post by phone, calling Williams’ latest arrest a “sad situation.”
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea lauded NYPD detectives for “pursuing those who drive violence in NYC” in a tweet Monday about Williams’ arrest.
“The @NYPD40Pct apprehended a 19 y/o suspect from an April shooting. They’ve now charged him w/ that crime & the recent murder of a Bronx man — both committed while he was out on an open gun case,” Shea said in the tweet, which listed Williams’ age incorrectly.
Williams was assigned a public defender for the shooting cases, who did not return a request for comment.