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19-year-old on 7-week Revenge Shooting Spree Arrested in Brooklyn: Police

By Trevor Kapp | November 14, 2014 10:08am
 Clayton Gravenhise, 19, has been arrested in connection with two fatal shootings in Brooklyn this summer, police said.
Clayton Gravenhise, 19, has been arrested in connection with two fatal shootings in Brooklyn this summer, police said.
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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — A 19-year-old arrested for wounding a man in Brownsville on Tuesday confessed to carrying out a seven-week revenge campaign — including two murders — against the people he believed killed his brother this summer, police said.

Clayton Gravenhise shot a 32-year-old man in the back on Lott Avenue, near Mother Gaston Boulevard, in Brownsville about 11 p.m. Tuesday, a law-enforcement source said.

While questioned in connection with the shooting, he admitted to killing Beverly Turner, 18, near Quincy Street and Marcy Avenue about 1:20 a.m. on July 13, the NYPD said.

Gravenhise also confessed to shooting Jahzeph Crooks, 19, and wounded a 20-year-old woman in the ankle outside a liquor store on Stone Avenue, near Hull Street, in Brownsville, about 11:20 p.m. on Aug. 29, the NYPD said. Crooks later died in the hospital.

Both summer murders were in retaliation the shooting death of his brother, Nathaniel Gravenhise, 19, who  in early July, a law-enforcement source said.

It was not clear how Clayton Gravenhise's victims were connected to the shooting of his brother.

Gravenhise has been charged with murder and criminal possession, the NYPD said.