NEW YORK — A successful rapper used earnings from his music career to promote gun violence in Brooklyn, New York, prosecutors alleged Tuesday.
Michael Williams, known as Sheff G, is among 32 purported street gang members charged Tuesday in a series of shootings in Brooklyn that left one person dead and a dozen more injured.
Williams offered money and expensive jewelry to those who carried out acts of violence, prosecutors said. Williams was expected to appear in court on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear who his attorney is. An alleged Folk Nation rival, Theodore Senior, 23, was killed and five other alleged Folk Nation members were shot and injured.
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