Three District men were convicted of a drive-by shooting last summer that targeted a rival neighborhood crew, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced Thursday. Prosecutors said the men were affiliated with the KDY crew in the Kennedy Street neighborhood of Northwest Washington and were retaliating against the rival CRT gang from the Crittenden Street neighborhood, also in Northwest.
The pre-dawn drive-by attack was one of many violent episodes in a back-and-forth battle between the warring gangs, police said.
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Prosecutors said KDY members believed that CRT was responsible for the July 2009 murder of 20-year-old KDY member Dewayne Coles.
On Aug. 17, Sergio Waynes, 24, Marcio Green, 28, and Brian Coles, 27, paid a tribute to Dewayne Coles and were seen pouring out liquor on the ground in his memory, prosecutors said.
The men then drove to CRT territory, near Ninth and Crittenden, on a revenge mission, prosecutors said.
Green was given a semiautomatic pistol and got out of the car. A shootout ensued between the gangs with no fewer than 26 bullets fired in the melee.
Green was shot in the neck and arm and fell back into the car, prosecutors.
“You had 36 rounds in that gun and couldn’t get off one shot. We’ll be back,” Waynes allegedly told Green as they dropped him at the hospital. He survived.
Following the shooting, the gang tried to persuade eyewitnesses to lie to the police and tamper with evidence, as well discard the weapon used in the shootings, prosecutor said.
On Tuesday, a D.C. jury convicted the trio in the drive-by shooting.
Green was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and carrying a pistol without a license.
Waynes was convicted of charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, unlawful possession of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a license, tampering with evidence, and obstruction of justice.
Coles was found guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a license, and obstruction of justice.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Heidi M. Pasichow scheduled a sentencing for the three men in late February.
