'Super Rich Kids' Charged With 15-Year-Old Boy's Flatbush Murder

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Members of the violent Super Rich Kids gang have been charged with the murder of an innocent 15-year-old boy they mistook for a rival, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Twenty-one alleged Folk Nation members stand accused of wreaking havoc in the streets of Brooklyn for years, hunting downs suspected enemies and shooting innocent people, as they sought to claim dominance over rival Bloods and Crips gangs, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

"These defendants terrorized the streets of Brooklyn," Gonzalez said, "by opening fire on perceived rivals and recklessly firing their guns – including in broad daylight – endangering innocent bystanders."

Two Folk Nation subsets — Super Rich Kids and Newkirk — operated out of East Flatbush and were responsible for at least five shootouts between July 2016 and June 2019, prosecutors said.

Alleged gang member Zidon Clarke, 20, stands accused of murdering 15-year-old Rohan Levy, whom he mistook for a rival gang member, on East 55th Street in East Flatbush on Feb. 20, 2017, court records show.

The crews often went on armed hunting expeditions against rivals they called "spinning the floss," prosecutors said.

Khaysean Porter, 21, Tahir Thomas, 18, and Travis Laroc, 17, stand accused of murdering 22-year-old Darren Harrison, who was shot dead on East 84th Street in Canarsie on Feb. 5, 2017, said prosecutors.

Porter is also charged with shooting a rival gang member on Utica Avenue in Brownsville on Dec. 27, 2016, and Laroc allegedly shot a rival on President Street and Utica Avenue in Crown Heights the day after, prosecutors said.

Porter's father Walter Porter, 41, was caught driving around East New York with his two sons and two dismantled pistols used in the four shootings on Feb. 24, 2017, prosecutors said.

The suspects, whose ages range from 17 to 41, were arraigned on a 65-count indictment — which includes murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, robbery, weapons possession charges — in Brooklyn Criminal Court last week, according to prosecutors.

Clarke, Laroc, Thomas, Rean Awong, 22, and Tarell Herbert, 25, were held without bail, according to prosecutors.

The younger Porter and Devon Bratton, 26, of East Flatbush, are expected to be arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court next week, said prosecutors.

Walter Porter, 41, and Barrington Songue, 26, will be extradited from New Jersey and Florida respectively, prosecutors said.

Bail was set to between $25,000 and $250,000 for Lorenzo Bailey, 30, Shaquille Benjamin, 19, Ameth Best, 22, Christopher Cooper, 18, Sherrod Craig, 19, Gishanie Gray, 18, Khalil Irving, 18, Keemari Porter, 19, Dandre Stanford, 20, and Darren Wilson, 19.

Suspected gang members Jabare Brim, 22, and Omar Peters, 24, have yet to be found, prosecutors said.