JERSEY CITY, N.J. (1010 WINS) — Six members of a Jersey City gang have been charged with a 2020 stabbing of a person on a busy street, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced on Monday.
Sheldon Mays, aka "Thottie," 21, Jermaine Jennings, aka "Maine" and "Drill," 20, Divine Abraham, aka "Dee," 21, Jamil Bowens, 20, Jaylen Boone, 21, and Yahsier Brown, 19, who are alleged members of the "Tay Tay Shrimp Gang" which are based in the Curries Woods housing complex in Jersey City, were each charged with one count of assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering activity in the August 3, 2020 stabbing incident.
According to court documents, the group sought out the victim, assaulted him, and stabbed him in broad daylight on a busy street in Jersey City last summer in retaliation for a prior assault of Mays on April 11, 2018, by other members of rival gangs including members of the Wilkinson Avenue and Ocean Avenue gangs who banned together "to retaliate against rival gangs that they share in common."
Officials said that on Aug. 3, 2020 Mays, Jennings, Bowens, Boone, Abraham, Brown, and two unnamed men who are all alleged members of the Curries Woods gang, arrived at Martin Luther King Drive and Dwight Street when they spotted the victim -- a member of Wilkinson/OGM, walking northbound on MLK Drive and surrounded him.
The victim ran north on MLK Drive, but the group caught up to him and repeatedly punched and kicked him, authorities said.
Mays then stabbed the victim in his side as the assault continued, officials said.
A person who was with the victim tried to intercede to help the victim, but that person was also assaulted.
The attackers fled and the victim was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries, officials said.
The incident was captured by Jersey City police CCTV cameras, according to a criminal complaint.
Law enforcement officials reviewed lawfully recorded conversations and text messages in which Mays, Boone, and Brown admitted they and other members of the Curries Woods Enterprise assaulted the victim, according to authorities.
The count of assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering activity is punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison.
