Six Slattery Crew Members Charged in Teen's 2022 Wrong-Target Bronx Killing

Nine rounds from two semi-automatic guns tore through the Fordham Heights block just after 9 p.m. on November 30, 2022. The Slattery crew's gunmen had come for Supreme Shabazz, a 16-year-old with ties to the rival Grizzly Gang. They got his younger brother instead. Prince Shabazz, 14, was struck in the chest on Webster Avenue and rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died. Supreme walked away uninjured.

More than three years later, Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced the indictment of six alleged Slattery gang members in connection with Prince's murder. The grand jury returned its charges on March 27, 2026, targeting a crew that takes its name from Slattery Playground on East 183rd Street, known in the borough by its drill-scene alias "Slaughtery."

The details embedded in the indictment make clear how investigators eventually cracked the case. After the shooting, the group fled in a vehicle that had been stolen five days earlier. Rather than lay low, they recorded a cellphone video of themselves boasting about the hit, and in that footage they identified one of the alleged gunmen, Diondre Martin, 22, calling him a "top shooter." That video became a centerpiece of the case. Martin, however, has not been taken into custody and remains a fugitive as of this reporting.

The Slattery crew's war with the Grizzly Gang runs through the backstory here. Supreme Shabazz, an aspiring drill rapper, was the intended target precisely because of those Grizzly Gang affiliations. The nine rounds fired that night, from two separate semi-automatic weapons, hit the wrong brother. It is the kind of wrong-target killing that true crime followers and urban violence researchers cite as one of the most devastating byproducts of tit-for-tat crew warfare, where retaliatory intent and poor execution converge on an innocent victim.

The indictment that arrived in March 2026 was not the first legal action connected to Prince's death. In December 2022, a 17-year-old girl was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon, though she was not publicly named because of her age. The 2026 multi-defendant indictment reflects the scope of a longer, more comprehensive investigation built on ballistics comparisons, witness cooperation, digital evidence, and the crew's own brag footage.

Bronx DA Clark has made the Slattery crew a repeated prosecution priority. In August 2024, her office brought a 176-count conspiracy indictment against 20 Slattery-connected defendants covering 14 shootings across Fordham Heights, Kingsbridge, Highbridge, and Morris Heights. The March 2026 indictment over Prince Shabazz's death is a separate action, but it fits the same sustained prosecutorial campaign to dismantle the crew piece by piece.

Five of the six defendants have been arraigned. The sixth, Diondre Martin, is still on the run.