Flatiron Murders May Stem From Baby Mama Diss

Photo of Terrance Serrano (right) and Rashawn Washington (via Daily News)

While the two men were fatally shot in a SUV parked on East 19th Street earlier this week apparently witnessed other murders, there's a new theory for why they were gunned down: One of the victims may have disrespected the mother of his child, resulting in a gang hit.

The Daily News reports that a suspect in the killings may have been arrested—he was pulled over due to a broken taillight—and then gives the back story for why the victims, Terrance Serrano, 22, and Rashawn Washington, 26, were targetted:

Police sources said Serrano had some kind of clash with his baby's mother last year. The woman felt disrespected and told her brother, who is a member of a street gang that hangs out on Mermaid Ave. The driver of the car pulled over yesterday runs with the same crew, the sources said.

Obsessed with payback, they tried to take Serrano out in July 2009. But a gunman's bullet missed Serrano and hit his brother, Micuan Serrano, 19, in the face, killing him. Serrano was quizzed about the murder, but refused to cooperate with police.

Cut to early Monday, when Washington and Serrano were at the nightclub Roam and someone from the Mermaid Crew allegedly spotted them. When the victims left the club, the News' sources say two gunmen were waiting and shot them in the car. Also, the Mermaid Avenue crew was allegedly Tweeting a confirmation of the killings, "The toaster is hot."

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By Jen Chung in News on October 6, 2010 5:43 PM

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robingee

Mermaid Crew? That's tuff, yo!

Murder seems like a reasonable response to being "dissed".

billyboy71

Something tells me we didn't lose the cure for cancer with these two.

Liza

"Baby mama"? Jen, you've never been a particularly talented writer, but cliched digs at people's race is even further below what I've come to expect from your articles.

Jen Chung

FWIW, we've used baby daddy and baby mama for white people too:

http://gothamist.com/2008/12/07/poehler_still_a_player_despite_now.php

http://gothamist.com/2008/05/09/vito_fossella_a_1.php

Liza

Seriously? You're counting the Amy Poehler one--I mean, the woman starred in a film called "Baby Mama"--as evidence for the "white people too" argument? Absolutely doesn't count. For what it's worth, it's still racist, even if you quoted it from a movie, or used "baby daddy" to refer to one white person, one time. And actually, you should also maybe spend some time looking into the history of Italian-Americans' status as "white" before that one's allowed to be entered into the record.

Liza

oops, I mean TAKING cliched digs. That's what I get for trying to be smart before coffee.

Gotham Extremist

Iz tht da young j-z & llcoolj?

John L

Can somebody explain to Bloomberg and Ray Kelly that NYC has a serious gang problem and that they should do something about it before it gets worse.

The law abiding citizens of Coney Island staged an anti-violence protest earlier this Summer begging for more police assistance and they still wouldn't listen to them. Now their killings have spilled over into Manhattan and they're stupid and brazen enough to broadcast it over Twitter.

I'm not really too concerned with the death of these two, but somewhere in the middle of all this a Coney Island grandmother, Anna Surman, was killed by these gangbangers and for all the racists on here cheering this on, she was white.

"Anna Surman was sitting on a bench in the courtyard of the Surfside Gardens Houses admiring the flowers and feeding a neighbor's cat when a bullet pierced her neck Sunday afternoon."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/08/04/2009-08-04_coney_grannys_kin_in_shock_over_slay.html

One of these guys was allegedly the target and refused to name the gunman.

So this is not just a black and white issue, it's criminals vs law abiding citizens issue and Bloomberg and Ray Kelly are ignoring it and by doing so these animals are running amuck.

Ray Kelly has to go.

ocm123

You say more officers should be sent to Coney Island; may I ask from what area do you think officers should be moved from? Should they move officers out of an area with even more shootings than Coney Island? Should they move them from potential terrorists targets, such as Times Square and Penn Station? or should they be moved from the less active precincts that have already been decimated by staffing cuts?(Remember, federal funds partially pay for the Transit Police, so they can't come from there.) There numerous communities around the city that could use more officers, but there are simply not enough to go around.

dadoc

As usual, yesterday's perp is tomorrows vic. Hopefully they all wipe each other out til the last one OD's. But at least they could keep it in their own neighborhoods, and let the collateral damage occur to their neighbors.

Woody111

Thank god they weren't killed because they might testify at a trial someday. It's much more comforting to know that they were killed by gang members in retaliation for dissing a baby mama.

Law-abiding, hard-working & productive members of society really have to wonder who breeds and "nurtures" these kind of animals.

nik13

Hopefully something was salvaged from those examples of accidental breeding. A few kidneys, corneas, livers, bone marrow, skin (OK, scratch that), etc. Worthless while alive, perhaps now they will save some really sick kid with kidney problems.