Bloods affiliate NYC street gang started war sparked by murder of teen: DA
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A Bloods-affiliated street gang unleashed a two-year war that saw 11 shootings as it terrorized a section of Queens on a violent spree that left three people wounded and one man paralyzed, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The Blitz Gang 4, operating out of South Jamaica’s Baisley Park Houses, unleashed a series of shootings and a stabbing on members of rivals MacBallers, Floss Money Ballers and Crips affiliate 5th Clocc in the months after one BG4 members gunned down Akim Cisse, 17, in September 2024, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.
Katz announced a 97-count indictment against the gang, including one who was caught on tape ordering a 15-year old to murder an opponent outside McDonald’s in Cambria Heights in March — and who stayed on the scene to point responding cops in the wrong direction.
“As alleged, the wanton violence between members of Blitz Gang 4 and Floss Money Ballers has terrorized Southeast Queens communities for the past two years, putting countless innocent residents at risk,” Katz said at a news conference.
“The streets of Queens will be safer this summer,” she said, due to the arrests.
One of the more wild acts of violence during the war included a brazen broad day stabbing outside of the Queens Criminal Courthouse in December 2025, where a group of gang members are seen beating a rival before one of the crew stabs him, according to prosecutors.
Another included a February shooting outside of a Sweet 16 in Queens, prosecutors said.
Katz called the bust the second phase of the department’s broader crackdown on Southeast Queens gang violence, as her office took down BG4’s rivals, the Floss Money Ballers, just nine months ago.
The gang’s alleged violence over the last few years has left at least three people wounded — including the person stabbed outside of the Queens Criminal Courthouse and one man paralyzed after being shot in the back inside a South Jamaica home, prosecutors said.
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Another incident, which was caught on camera and obtained by The Post, showed a March 2026 incident in a Queens McDonald’s parking lot, where a 19-year-old BG4 member allegedly ordered another 15-year-old member to pull out his gun and “boom” a rival who they had spotted — or hand him the weapon and he’ll do it himself.
“[19-year-old] Noah Thomas ordered a 15-year-old defendant to shoot the rival or hand him the gun himself, so he could do it, and the 15-year-old fired multiple rounds at the suspected rival,” Katz said.
Members would allegedly travel into enemy territories on missions to hunt rival gangs, and would even brag about their violent motives through songs and videos posted to Instagram, according to the indictment.
Despite the massive indictment, three suspects still remain at large, the DA said.