Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Maliek Miller, a leader of the Ninedee Gang, a violent criminal enterprise operating out of the Louis H. Pink Houses (Pink Houses) in East New York, Brooklyn, was sentenced by United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall to a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Miller was convicted in June 2024 following a jury trial of murder in-aid-of-racketeering for the murder of former federal witness Shatavia Walls in July 2020 and related crimes, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder in-aid-of racketeering, unlawful use and possession of firearms, being a felon in possession of ammunition and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.