A Brooklyn man linked to three separate homicides just weeks apart in 2020 — when he was a 16-year-old gangbanger — was sentenced to 33 years-to-life in prison, officials said Tuesday.
Iquan Warlick, 21, who lives in Fort Greene, pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder, attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and conspiracy.
Front page for Jan. 16, 2022: Brooklyn youth charged in four homicides. Iquan Warlick (above) is caught on camera shooting a victim in Brooklyn in 2020, prosecutors say.
Several other gang members had been previously sentenced for their role in the shootings, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said.
“These defendants turned our streets into shooting galleries and showed shocking disregard for human life,” Gonzalez said in a statement.
“Three innocent people were killed, others wounded, and the defendants tried to intimidate whole neighborhoods. That ends here. Long prison terms like this send a simple message to anyone who thinks gang beefs can be settled with a gun. Brooklyn will not tolerate it, and we will hold you accountable.”
According to prosecutors, on Sept. 12, 2020, Warlick was trading texts with gang associates, telling them the location of a rival gang member who was later fatally shot.
Some six weeks later, on Oct. 28, Warlick and another gang associate surprised a rival gang member at an East New York bodega, chasing him outside where Warlick fatally shot him, officials said.
The following month, on Nov. 22, Warlick and his partners ambushed an East New York birthday party, where a rival was shot in the leg. When the party moved to a Bedford-Stuyvesant location, Warlick and his partners followed, opened fire and killed Daijyonna Long, 20, a college student visiting from Virginia, officials said.
Officials said Warlick went online to boast about one of the shootings.
“Just violated some rocky world n—a,” Warlick wrote in a group chat, referencing the name of the rival crew.
He also sent a link to the Citizen app with the headline boasting: “Man Critically Injured in Shooting.”