"The evidence showed a killing without any provocation, done in broad daylight, with many bystanders in close proximity. This was a brazen, targeted killing. As I presided over both trials in this matter, I did hear first-hand the details of the crime."
"Brandon Washington was unarmed and simply going about his day when this defendant brazenly opened fire, killing him and endangering others nearby. The day that we lost Brandon, we lost not just a son, but a devoted father, a brother, a grandson, an uncle and a great friend."
"Jackson ambushed him in the middle of the street on Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Hancock St. and fired five times, hitting him in the torso, hip and buttocks. Jackson, a long-time drug dealer in Bedford-Stuyvesant, had been feuding with Washington for decades."
Saalik Jackson, a 47-year-old Brooklyn drug dealer, was sentenced to 25 years to life for the 2021 fatal shooting of Brandon Washington. Jackson ambushed Washington on a moped in broad daylight, firing five times and hitting him in the torso, hip, and buttocks. The killing stemmed from a decades-long feud between Jackson and Washington, rooted in Washington shooting one of Jackson's childhood friends in 2001. Jackson hired a third party to pressure a juror during his first trial to obtain a mistrial. In the retrial, Judge E. Niki Larin took the rare step of implementing a fully anonymous jury, shielding jurors' names and addresses from Jackson, though not his attorneys. The judge characterized the shooting as a brazen, targeted killing without provocation committed in broad daylight with many bystanders present.
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