A known Bronx gang member has now been charged with murder after he allegedly opened fire outside a Manhattan club after he was kicked out by security, killing one woman and wounding two other, when he actually intended to kill the bouncer.
James Dalone, 26 – previously identified as Dalone Jamison – was arrested during a car stop in Brooklyn on Tuesday following the shooting outside Motivo nightclub, in the Flatiron District, early Monday morning.
Walikque Faussett, 24, a single mother with a three-year-old son, was waiting for a cab when she was twice shot in the back, later dying in hospital, while two other bystanders were also hit.
Dalone, a member of the Bronx gang Dymes R Us, posted a photo to Instagram after the shooting, saying he hoped ‘Grace’ – Faussett’s nickname – was alright, and denying any involvement.
One witness, Miguel Gomez, said he saw the fight break out.
‘[The suspected shooter] tried to start fighting with another man inside the club [and then security] put him outside,’ Gomez told Pix 11.
‘They didn’t let him back in. He said, ‘That’s how it’s going to be?’
‘He goes back inside the car.
‘I don’t know if it was him who shot [at the women].
‘He [ran] into the back into the black BMW and that’s when I heard the gunshots, and hurt the three ladies.’
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