Feb. 6, 2020 -- Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced G-Shine Bloods gang member Matthew Brown of Delaware pleaded guilty in the double shooting outside the Garden Bar in Mount Vernon in 2016 and the subsequent conspiracy to kill a witness in that case.

In a courtroom on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, before Judge Anne Minihan, Brown pleaded to the following charges:

  • Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, a class B violent felony
  • Assault in the First Degree, a class B violent felony
  • In the jail conspiracy indictment: Conspiracy in the Second Degree, a class B felony

On sentencing, Brown faces 20 years in state prison on the shooting and 10-20 years in state prison on the conspiracy to kill the witness. All sentences will run concurrently. He was remanded into custody.

Background
On Dec. 10, 2016 at 1:44 a.m. outside of the Garden Bar, 766 South 5th Avenue, Mount Vernon, G-Shine Bloods gang leader Jason Garcia a/k/a "Mecca-J" ordered Matthew Brown, a Bloods gang member, to shoot an individual who owed Garcia money for marijuana. Garcia is the highest-ranking member of the Westchester set of the Bloods Gang. Garcia was convicted of the shooting Jan. 31, 2020. He will be sentenced March 17, 2020.

The target victim outside the bar was shot in the chest and neck, and an innocent bystander was shot in the head. Both survived, but face life-long medical difficulties. The shooting was captured on surveillance video.

Later, Both Garcia and Brown and three other co-defendants were charged with attempted murder and conspiring to kill an eyewitness to that shooting while being held in County jail. For that, Garcia and the other co-defendants are charged with Attempted Murder in the First Degree, a class A violent felony, and others charges. Those cases are pending.

“Once again, communities in Westchester can feel safer for the good work and collaboration of our prosecutors and investigators with Mount Vernon Police and the county Department of Correction,” said DA Scarpino. I commend all of them for today’s guilty plea by gunman and gang conspirator Matthew Brown and for keeping our witnesses safe. Our concentration on fighting the most violent criminals and the gangs, which plague some of our cities, continues to show success. We will not stop.”

Investigations into these cases are a collaboration by the Mount Vernon Police Department and the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office Criminal Investigators. In addition, the jail conspiracy case was investigated in collaboration with the Westchester County Department of Correction.

Westchester County District Attorney’s Investigations Division Gang, Guns and Narcotics Bureau is prosecuting the case.

 In compliance with the Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 3.6, you are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

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