A teenage drill rapper who walked off scot-free after being accused of capturing a cop throughout a scuffle earlier this yr cried after he was ordered held on $100,000 bail on a brand new gun cost Thursday.
Camrin Williams, a 17-year-old gangbanger who goes by the stage title C Blu, broke down in tears as he was led out of Bronx Prison Courtroom in handcuffs following his arraignment.
Decide Joseph McCormack ordered the teenager held on the money bail, or bonds of $250,000 or $300,000, through the listening to.
Williams was picked up on the brand new weapons cost Tuesday for allegedly holding a loaded gun at Backyard Avenue and Crotona Avenue in Belmont.
“[Williams] is a self-professed member of the Crips,” Bronx Assistant District Legal professional Alana Brady instructed the decide on the teen’s arraignment. “[Williams’] social media incorporates a number of posts with firearms and implications of willingness and prepared potential to shoot any member of [the] opposition.”
She requested that Williams be held on $150,000 money bail or a $450,000 bond.
Williams, a member of the Crips-affiliated Reyway Crew, was stopped by police after he was noticed operating in the direction of a automobile fumbling with one thing in his waistband.
It turned out to be a loaded silver Bryco Arms 9 mm handgun, in line with police sources.
The teenager’s lawyer, Daybreak Florio, mentioned her shopper was “traumatized” by the brand new arrest.
“My shopper was exterior a automobile,” she mentioned. “Police comes with their weapons out, circling across the block. Plenty of video surveillance taken by cameras. Police focused my shopper, weapons drawn, he was scared for his life. He took out his telephone, his fingers had been up.”
She mentioned Wiliams was making an attempt to name his mom.
“Distinguished drill rapper persona of posting on social media dissing different individuals,” Florio instructed the decide. “He didn’t get right into a struggle. He’s scared. He’s actually traumatized by the entire occasion. He misplaced all his month. He's a boy.”
However McCormack wasn’t moved.
“I do know that is the third contact [with the felony justice system,” the decide mentioned. “It is a severe offense.”
Leaving court docket, the teenager’s household screamed at reporters and lunged at a photographer.
Williams, who has a string of gun-related busts on his file — relationship to when he was simply 14 — was arrested on Jan. 18 after a scuffle throughout which an NYPD cop was shot within the leg on East 187th Avenue within the Bronx.
The troubled teen was charged with tried homicide within the case and was later arrested once more on a parole violation only one week after posting a $250,000 bond.
The case was dismissed with out clarification in Might.
The town Regulation Division, which prosecutes crimes dedicated by minors, would solely say that Williams “can't be prosecuted” however supplied no particulars.
“This absurd determination ought to outrage each New Yorker who desires to get unlawful weapons off the streets,” NYPD Police Benevolent Affiliation president Patrick Lynch mentioned on the time.
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