Brooklyn Gang War – A Marcy Projects Story – Gz Up Crew/Bloods – Shoeshine Da Legend – Home Of Jay Z

The evidence at trial established that between January 2004 and December 2006, Washington and other members and associates of G’z Up sold crack cocaine at the Marcy Houses in Bedford Stuyvesant, with a base of operations at 564 Park Avenue, as well as in Monticello, New York, and Altoona, Pennsylvania. On February 10, 2005, Washington directed two G’z Up members to kill the leader of a rival drug crew whose members were feuding with G’z Up. Washington provided a handgun and directed the two to ambush the leader of the drug crew inside a building at the Marcy Houses development. Both gunmen fired, but missed their intended target and killed a bystander, Steven Negron.

After Washington’s brother, John Hayes, was murdered by a rival in July 2006, Washington sought revenge. On August 7, 2006, the day of Hayes’s funeral, Washington traveled to the Tompkins Houses in Bedford Stuyvesant with five G’z Up members and associates, where they confronted the individual they believed responsible for Hayes’s murder. Two gunmen opened fire, but again missed their intended target, and instead killed a bystander, Andrell Napper.

Following his indictment on the murders in 2014, Washington evaded arrest for two years and in 2016 attempted to avoid arrest by providing false information to an NYPD officer.