A gang member Crips charged after an FBI agent was shot dead in New York

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NEW YORK >> Federal authorities announced today that they have arrested an alleged member of the street gang Crips, accused of shooting at an FBI agent during the weekend. while he was walking in a house in the Canarsie neighborhood in Brooklyn.

The suspect Ronell Watson was arrested on Saturday shortly after the unidentified officer was shot in the shoulder during an exchange of gunfire around 15:30 this afternoon. -midi near 92nd Street East and N. Avenue

Watson, 31, pleaded not guilty today of being charged with attempted murder in the US District Court from Brooklyn. His girlfriend, Molissa Gangapersad, 30, was also arrested for lying to federal agents who were investigating the shooting. She also pleaded not guilty.

The incident began Saturday when the FBI agent was parked in an unmarked car on Canarsie Road and was conducting surveillance as part of an undisclosed investigation, according to court documents filed by the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn. [19659004] Driving the wrong way down the one-way street, Watson fired his own car, a BMW, in front of the agent's car, blocking it in part, the newspapers said. Then Watson came out of his car and approached the agent with a hand hidden in the pocket before his hoodie, prosecutors said in a criminal complaint.

While he was trying to maneuver around him, Watson pulled out a gun and opened fire, hitting the officer once on the chest while he was going away , said court documents.

Although injured, the officer managed to get out of his car and fight back, hitting Watson at least once in his left hand, prosecutors said. . Watson then fled to his car in a nearby auto body shop and sought treatment for his injury at the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Prosecutors said he had lied to the doctors, telling them that he had simply been a witness to the shooting and that he had been injured in a gun exchange.

But law enforcement officers at the hospital eventually heard Watson call Gangapersad and tell him to go to their home "get the jewels and get rid of them", have declared court documents.

When investigators interviewed Gangapersad that night, she first lied about the testimony of the shooting, according to court documents. But she finally confessed to seeing her after the investigators showed her a surveillance video that showed her under the porch of the house with an unobstructed view of the shooting.

When the investigators searched the house, they found more than one pound.

In an unusual move, the American attorney in Brooklyn, Richard P. Donoghue, personally appeared in court in Watson's court, declaring trial judge Steven L Donoghue added that the court of appeal in the court of Watson attack had been intercepted by several videos, including one showing Watson "aggressively shooting at the agent".

without security. Gangapersad was released on bail of $ 500,000.

Watson's lawyer, Michelle Gelernt, made no comment on the charges against him, which carry a maximum prison sentence for life. Gary Schorr, Gangapersad's lawyer, did not immediately respond to a phone call asking for comments.

The officer remained hospitalized today, but his injury did not put his life at risk, law enforcement officials said.