Brooklyn Woman's Death Result Of Feud Between Gangs

Police officers on rooftops (NBC New York)

As police try to find the suspect whose Friday afternoon shooting from a Brooklyn rooftop left a woman dead and another woman and an 11-year-old girl injured, the slain woman's family remains bereft. Zurana Horton, 34, was killed when picking up a child from P.S. 298 in Brownsville, at Pitkin Avenue and Watkins Street, and apparently died trying to shield other youngsters. One of Horton's children told the Post that she actually walked by the crime scene, not realizing her mother was the victim, "I was wondering where my mother was. I found out later [the body] was my mother. My little sister [Alexis] said, ‘Mommy died. She got shot.’"

According to the Post, the violence is due to a feud "stemmed from an ongoing beef between two warring factions, the Hoodstars and the Waves. Members of both gangs told The Post that they consider themselves the modern-day Bloods and Crips -- and sources say their violent feud has been raging for several years." Apparently residents are too afraid to call 911 and say the violence is worse at night, when the gangster "do not hesitate" to shoot.

While neighbors said that Horton, who had 13 living children (a 14th died of pneumonia a few years ago), was pregnant, but the ME's office said that she was not. Still, the tragedy is huge, as her children (10 pictured here) will be split up between Horton's mother and her ex-boyfriend, Oniel Vaughn, the father of eight of the children, who told the Daily News, "She gave her life for those kids, and she would have done it all again because that's just the kind of person she was. She was worried about the violence. She said she wanted to move and buy a house for her kids. Those kids were her life." He added, "I didn't tell the younger kids yet. The older ones know. They're devastated."

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By Jen Chung in News on October 23, 2011 9:28 AM

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LICnative

I took the Hoodrats with the under.

brooklynRick

Thats why you don't have 13 fucking kids, nothing in life is gauranteed, including yours.

AlexTheOriginalPartyDog

Another reason to not have 13 kids would be the chance to avoid being a 34 year old w/ potato sacks for breasts and a walk-in closet for a va-jay-jay. Just saying.

whiteiris

Bring back Giuliani. This city is nearing Dinkins territory and you can thank BLOOMBERG for all the increase in crime. He spends his week fighting salt, soda, transfat, kissing protesters and bike lane advocates asses while disappearing on weekends who knows where as he won't tell us.

Lets see all the race baiters marching against gangs instead of at the entitled white ows.

Any Amish in these gangs cause we wouldn't want to profile.

Peter

an ongoing beef between two warring factions, the Hoodstars and the Waves

What do you get when you put five Hoodstars and five Waves in a room together?

A collective I.Q. score of 750.

Samantha Nicholson

hahaha.

randomtransplant

Jails are filled with pot dealers and working immigrants.

The streets are filled with people caling themselves "hood stars".

Mayorships are filled with people who want to spend less on teachers, jobs, cops & jails.

America, you are really starting to fall off.

mogwai

um, this woman had 13 kids.

not saying that she deserved to be shot but...this woman had 13 kids.

if you want to find the root of the problem...perhaps its the amount of kids running around without parents in the hood.

petey2

ages 18 -1 and pregnant with another.

whiteiris

Vicious liberal cycle. 1) Don't teach about birth control only abortion. 2) But more kids =more welfare money to keep them on the welfare plantation so they vote Democrat. 3) = keep daddy out of the house or no welfare money for all those kids. Liberals have destroyed the black family.

http://www.city-journal.org/ht...

AlexTheOriginalPartyDog

Right, because it's the liberals who fight to limit sex-education and birth control. It's certainly not the moronic fucking god-fearing idiots that want to keep that knowledge out of the public sphere.

And way to add a city journal link. A publication that makes Fox News seem intelligent and rational.

Samantha Nicholson

Truth.

Peter

For some inexplicable reason I have a sudden urge to rent the movie Idiocracy.

chee1rs

Disgraceful hooligans

schmeep

More like rapscallions.

splicernyc

Keep arresting protesters but let the gangs run rampant. Ray Kelly is too busy thinking he can shoot down airliners to worry about the little people or which cops are on the take to allow this sort of terrorism to continue. Oops, I'm sorry, did I say "terrorism"? Yes, because that's exactly what these gangs are. This isn't Slip, Satch and Whitey looking for ghosts, it's a bunch of thugs using fear and intimidation for their own ends. This is terrorism. Use the PATRIOT Act for a useful purpose and round up these bastards en masse. Federal prison awaits.

dogbertt

Send them to Gitmo brah

Jamie_McDonald

Yeah, that will definitely fix it. Because if there's one thing that a 17-year old in Brownsville thinks about before popping off a clip off a rooftop, it's whether he will be prosecuted by the state of New York or the federal government. Also, I'm sorry to let you down, since for some reason you seem to think you're somehow daring for calling this "terrorism," but you're wrong, because terrorism necessarily has a political component. Unless, of course, the Hoodrats and the Waves are trying to influence government policy. Words mean things. Under your definition, any violent criminal is a terrorist. You really want to foot the bill for a federal prosecution of every violent criminal?

splicernyc

You're right. Maybe if we just ask them nicely to stop it will have some sort of effect.

Jamie_McDonald

In your book, are there no options in between "federal prosecution" and "asking them to stop nicely"? If that is the case, then your book is stupid and retarded. Oops, I'm sorry, did I say "stupid and retarded"? Yes, because that's exactly what it is.