Crime & Safety
Gunman In Fatal Crown Heights Shooting Caught, Cops Say
Gerald Quarles was charged with murder in the death of Eryk Ford, who was found shot near Ralph Avenue in November, police said.
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — The gunman from a fatal shooting in Crown Heights has been charged with murder three months after the killing, police announced.
Gerald Quarles, 44, was arrested Saturday on second-degree murder and weapons charges for the November killing of Eryck Ford, who was found shot several times near Ralph Avenue and Lincoln Place on Nov. 8, police said.
Ford, 28, was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital after the shooting.
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Cops extradited Quarles to Brooklyn from Georgia, where they found out he was shortly after the shooting, according to the Daily News.
The News also reported that Ford had recently been released from prison before his death.
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He was convicted of manslaughter in 2016 for the 2012 shaken-baby death of his 6-week-old daughter Aniya and sentenced to up to 12 years in prison, but was released on parole in 2019, according to state Department of Corrections records.
Ford was trying to prove he was wrongfully convicted before he was killed, the News said.
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