NYPD Concerned About Gang Member's Funeral

The funeral of a gang member has police on "high alert" today, according to Newsday. Melissa Williams, 28, was fatally shot last month in the Rockaways: "Williams was an associate of GIB, Get It In Bricks - a reference to bricks of cocaine - police sources said. The man charged in her shooting, Nigel Vasser, also 28, is a Bloods member with a sect known as HRG Blood, for Hood Related Gangster." The two gangs have been at fighting for a few years now and, based on "prisoner debriefings" and informants' news, the NYPD will have a number of units (including the Gang Division) present at the viewing at a Rockaways Church. Further, Newsday reports, "The NYPD is so worried it even notified New Jersey State Police because Williams will be buried in Morganville, N.J., at the Forest Green Park Cemetery, and it is not unusual for rival gangs to confront each other graveside."

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By Jen Chung in News on May 5, 2009 10:15 AM

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Snoopy

So did anyone get blown away or was it a false alarm?

rdsizzle

Shouldent it be GIIB?

longacre

"You're talkin to the robbery expert. Steppin' to your wake with your blood on my shirt." –Biggie Smalls

longacre

Seeing these words in print it looks sort of like an LOLcat. Biggie truly was ahead of his time.

"I'm in ur funeral, pretendin 2 be sads."

w0wzers

People in gangs are slightly mentally retarded. They lack logic. I knew a guy who went by the name of "ICE" he was white and claimed to be a crip. He was also kicking it to this girl i knew at the time saying "Baby i'll drive you in my beemer." His beemer was a 1990 Caddy el dorado. /end rant

marcyd

Those are some really dumb sounding gang names.

Snoopy

Will the NYPD cordon off a three block area around these event sites and allow only gang members into this core? Shouldn't they return all those weapons that were turned in for cash back to the original owners so they can wipe each other out?

Then when all the fun is over, tighten the noose and kill all those that remain standing inside the area. After that, release a pack of starved pitbulls into the area to clean up the mess.

Now that is what I call coordinated planning. Not a bunch of guys with cameras taking pictures of mourners.

Also shouldn't "Get It In Bricks" be GIIB not GIB? Don't these gang members know how to spell?

hotstepper

I can see it now...The 1st Annual "National Gangsta Spelling Bee" on NBC primetime.

Snoopy

OK Shaniqua spell "Little" and use it in a sentence. Shaniqua, "Little, "LIL'". Lil' Kim."

contro

LOL! gangsta spelling bee I lol'd.

schadenfreudian mensch

More like Million Gangsta March.

Tar_Baby

They're just keeping it real the best way they know how. Why not just let them kill each other? It would be a win-win for all non-savages.

mocanlagunas

please, please, please!

And let's see some video...

Brooklynbobby

"the NYPD will have a number of units (including the Gang Division) present at the viewing at a Rockaways Church"

Hopefully, an altercation will develop and the NYPD will open fire and blow all those assholes away. Of course, then we'll have to listen to Sharpton bitch about unnecessary force.