A Member of Bobby Shmurda’s GS9 Crew Has Been Sentenced to 98 Years in Prison

Bobby Shmurda and 12 members of his GS9 crew were arrested in December of 2014 on several felony weapons, murder and conspiracy charges as the result of an NYPD sting operation. Shmurda, the most high-profile member of his crew, has been behind bars ever since, and has seen his efforts to make bail get thwarted several times. The rapper’s trial has also been delayed on more than one occasion, and it’s now scheduled to begin in September.
In the meantime, several of Shmurda’s crew members continue to get their day in court, and most recently, GS9 member Rashid “Rasha” Derissant was found guilty of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy last month, as well as crewmate “A-Rod.” The court found them guilty of the 2013 murder of a 19-year-old rival gang member. In a press release dated May 17, the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York announced that Derissant has been sentenced to 98 1/3 years-to-life in prison “for his role in gang warfare that extended from New York City to Miami, and involved murder and multiple attempted murders between January 2013 and October 2014.”
As for the murder in question, the release goes on to state that “Rasha” was a “member of ‘GS9’ or ‘G Stone Crips,’ a street crew based in East Flatbush Brooklyn, and conspired to engage in a pattern of gang-related violence, much of it stemming from an ongoing dispute with members of the rival gang ‘Brooklyn’s Most Wanted,’ or ‘BMW.’ The conspiracy began with crack dealing in Brooklyn, and spanned nearly two years.”
Shmurda’s case will be tried independently of Derissant’s in September, but this news likely doesn’t bode well for him or his other GS9 mates