FLATIRON — The accused Crips gang member who denied on social media that he fatally shot a friend and two others outside a nightclub early Monday was fingered by four different witnesses in police lineups, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Dalone Jamison, 26, was charged after opening fire on bouncers from the Motivo nightclub after they kicked him out, inadvertently shooting his friend Walikque "Grace" Faussett, 24, in the back, police and prosecutors said. Faussett.
"He was identified on Oct. 13, 2015 as the perpetrator in lineups in front of four witnesses," Assistant District Attorney Marc Krupnick said during his arraignment Wednesday.
Faussett, who has a 3-year-old son, was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital, police said.
Jamison, a reputed gang member who was DJing at the club that night, also wounded two other women as he sprayed bullets at the bouncers who had kicked him out for fighting in the club just before 4 a.m, authorities say.
“The defendant returned with a loaded and operable handgun,” Krupnick said. “The defendant stated, in substance, during the incident, ‘I’ll kill you.’”
Another bullet pierced the baseball cap of bystander on the street, but he escaped unscathed, prosecutors said.
Jamison stood stonefaced during his Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment on murder, assault and weapons possessions charges in connection with the deadly shooting. He was ordered held without bail.
On Monday, before he became a suspect in the case, he posted an Instagram photo of himself seated next to his victim, claiming that he had nothing to do with the murder.
“Sleep in peace grace everybody got something to say that was my F-----g friend I would never do dumb s--t people make stories and everybody run with it,” he posted alongside a picture of him and Faussett.
“I’m not hiding cause I ain’t do s--t.”
Jamison’s uncle, Henry Jamison, accused the media of rushing to judgment.
“I don’t know if he did it or not. If he did, it was a mistake,” he uncle said following the arraignment.
Jamison, who has prior arrests for gang assault and grand larceny, is due back in court Oct. 19.
