A hooligan whose reckless shooting allegedly led to the tragic death of the beloved Pilar of the Harlem community, Excenia Mette, was released on bail in a cut case when the shooting of the sensation was developed, the post learned.
Dearious Smith, 23, took out a white Tyvek suit on his face while he was pushed in a wheelchair to a Manhattan court on Thursday to face charges of murder attempt and criminal possession of a firearm for the death of Mette.
The sources said it is believed that Smith has exchanged shots with the gun still in general whose street bullet hit Mette Mette in the head as he rushed to control his grandson on Tuesday night.
Smith was shot in the duration of the foot of the fight.
The judge of the Criminal Court of Manhattan, Kacie Lally, ordered that Smith be imprisoned without bail, a result that dodged the last time he was accused of a violent crime.
“This is what is making our work more difficult,” said Mayor Eric Adams, which Elday gave an event about illegal weapons from the streets.
“When you allow those who have recidivism, continuous violence in our city continues to walk the streets,” he said.
“The criminal justice system includes the police, the judiciary and the legislators. All must be committed in the same way.”
The records show that Smith was arrested in June 2024 after he allegedly cut two people with a cash cutter in Lenox Avenue, near West 118th Street, while trying to steal electronic bicycle batteries.
When processed by robberies and assault charges, prosecutors in the Manhattan district prosecutor’s office, Alvin Bragg, requested a bail of $ 50,000 in cash or a bail of $ 150,000, according to the records.
But Judge Michael Ryan established it at $ 10,000, which Smith published, which allows him to walk free before his scheduled judgment of May, the sources said.
Smith lived just one block from the old Mette business, Momma Zee’s Food To Plez Deli, which was the first black property winery in the city when he opened it in the 1980s.
The loved ones and neighbors gathered Thorsday in an improvised sanctuary in front of Mette’s house in West 113th Street and Lenox Avenue, where he was shot.
They hung a photo of Mette, whom they affectionately knew as “Mar de Mom” or “Marino”, spraying on a beach.
Neighboring Barbara Johnson, 66, said she was surprised that one of the shooters is a accused repeat offender.
“They need to do something for young people, to keep them busy, give them something to do, something to expect,” he said.
“Inactive hands are the devil’s workshop.”
“No system designed to keep people down will do anything to help us, and that is from the beginning, the first day of this country.”
Adams, talking with Pix11 on Wednesday night, blamed the criminal justice system for allowing Smith to take to the streets.
“Public security is a criminal justice team that includes the police, which includes judges, which includes legislators. The police are doing their job,” he said.
“When you have a person with repeated violence, last year, she was arrested for robbery, stabbing two people. Now she is back in the street, filled in a shooting that took the life of an innocent woman. We have the Owthem.
The City Councilor, Yusef Salam (D-Manhattan), which repeats the neighborhood of Harlem and presides over the Public Security Committee of the Council, a sincere memory of Mette, and blamed violence in part to systemic failures.
“Harlem is mourning for Mette, who fed the community, stopped with the young people and returned the service with leaders such as Reverend to Sharpton and artist Jim Jones,” said Salam.
“This act of violence, the result of an imprudent and deadly conflict in our streets, is another painful reminder that we are in a public security crisis,” he said.
“It is a rooted crisis not only in crime, but also in a long history of divestment, lack of opportunity and systemic failures that continue to affect our neighborhoods.”
Other legislators who represent the area focused on arms prevention efforts, such as assemblyman Jordan Wright (D-Manhattan), who called him a reminder “or how imperative it is to get the weapons out of our streets.”
“We have to continue fighting hard together to find solutions,” added state senator Cordelle Cleare (D-Manhattan) in a statement.
“Now is not the time for resources to be cut.”
The video images showed a man who coincides with Smith’s description, set up a scooter towards a group of people, pull a gun and shoot two shots, according to the court documents.
Police believe that the second suspect took their own gun and fired the shots that hurt Smith and killed Mette, said sources of application of the law.
Smith allegedly set up the Scooter along West 113th Street before colliding with a New York police officer who tried to stop him, the court documents the State.
He escaped to St. Nicholas Avenue, where he gave a 9 mm pistol to the sidewalk, according to the documents.
The sources said eight bullets were found in the fatal shot.
Smith’s high profile criminal defense lawyer, Dawn Florio, said four police officers defeated him with a gun and a taser, in addition to his gunshot wound.
She asked Smith medical attention and complained that being connected to the shooting is causing problems to her loved ones.
“My client’s family who lives in the neighborhood is being threatened,” he said.
– Additional reports from Vaughn Golden and Hannah Fierick
