A federal jury in Georgia final week discovered three members of the Gangster Disciples responsible of finishing up a string of murders that began in retaliation to the slaying of a fellow gang member.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia stated the jury convicted Andrea Paige Browner, 28, of Athens and Philmon Deshawn Chambers, 34, of Atlanta, who was the gang’s chief enforcer in Georgia, on homicide and gun costs. 

Browner, Chambers and Lesley Chappell Green, 35, of Stone Mountain have been all convicted of racketeer influenced and corrupt group conspiracy.

All defendants resist life in jail for his or her crimes. No sentencing hearings have been scheduled.

“These defendants placed the Gangster Disciples’ rule of revenge above the rule of law. Their days of violence in the name of the Gangster Disciples are now over,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division stated in a launch.

Prosecutors stated the murders have been set off by the December 2018 killing of Gangster Disciples member Walter James Brown, who was gunned down at an residence in Athens.

Chambers determined to kill Rodriguez Apollo Rucker in retaliation as a result of he was associated to one of many suspects named by police. 

Court paperwork stated Browner lured Rucker to an Athens motel for intercourse, then tipped Chambers off about when the sufferer was leaving. Chambers adopted Rucker to his residence and shot him lifeless.

After legislation enforcement pegged Chambers because the suspect in Rucker’s dying, the gang chief and Browner fled. Browner was quickly captured in Mount Enterprise, Texas.

Chambers then ordered hits on fellow gang members Derrick Ruff and Joshua Jackson as a result of he suspected the pair have been feeding police details about the gang.

A plan was hatched the place Ruff and Jackson would break right into a storage unit in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and ship the stolen items to Chambers’ hideout in Killeen, Texas, in response to cellphone information shared on the trial. 

Instead, the 2 victims have been ambushed and murdered on the web site by Lesley Green, Shabazz Larry Guidry, 28, of Decatur, and Robert Maurice Carlisle, 34, of Lithonia.

The three gangsters left Ruff and Jackson’s our bodies contained in the storage unit, the place police found them 4 months later in March 2019. 

Guidry and Carlisle beforehand pleaded responsible to RICO costs.

“Philmon Chambers, Andrea Browner and Lesley Green were Gangster Disciples who engaged in a pattern of violent criminal activity for years, to include three heinous murders; now, justice has been served,” U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary for the Middle District of Georgia stated within the launch. “Violent gangs, intimidation and murder have no place in our lawful society, and I commend the federal, state and local partners who worked so closely to solve this case of exceptional complexity.”

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