Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts Gardens

Crime & Mayhem

Man Arrested For Gunning Down Van and Killing Driver, Cops Say

April 11, 2013 8:06am | Updated April 11, 2013 8:06am
Martin Williams, 42, was found shot dead in a van in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens April 9, 2013.
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NEW YORK CITY — A dispute between two men turned violent on Tuesday when one of them gunned down the other as he was driving a large van through Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, cops said.

Martin Williams, 42, was driving east along Hawthorne Street when Daneel Edwards, 26, blasted him near Rogers Avenue about 1 p.m., according to the NYPD.

Williams kept driving but crashed the van a block later near 327 Hawthorne St. and died while trying to climb through the passenger side door, cops said.

Edwards was arrested on murder charges, police said. It was not immediately clear what the dispute was about.

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