In the wake of a mass shooting that killed two teenagers and injured five others, a 70-year-old grandmother in Westbury is now living in fear for her own life, receiving direct death threats from alleged gang members.
Maureen Davis, whose two grandchildren were among the injured, reported being threatened on Facebook with messages stating, “I’m next.” The chilling threats come after a brazen daytime attack on Tuesday, where four suspects opened fire on a group of seven teens simply sitting on a veranda.
Davis dismissed the gang’s alleged motive—labeling the victims as rivals—as a complete fabrication. “I’ve never seen any of those children carrying guns or acting like gangsters,” she asserted, pointing instead to jealousy over the teenagers’ clothes as a possible trigger. She described the gunmen as a constant, intimidating presence in the area, “sitting outside… smoking or gambling on the stoep,” and alleged a powerful gang leader is “the one organising these things.”
A surviving 18-year-old victim, shot in the leg and ear, corroborated the account of a coordinated attack, revealing this was the second shooting at the same house since July. He identified the assailants as members of the ‘Fast Guns’ gang, sent by a leader in his late 30s. “Yes, we know all the shooters,” he said, pointing out one of them from his hospital bed. “This place is too dangerous. There’s no mercy here anymore.”
While there are unconfirmed reports that three suspects have been arrested, the community remains gripped by fear. The story of a grandmother receiving threats and a survivor identifying his attackers in broad daylight paints a stark picture of a neighborhood where gang violence reigns with impunity, terrorizing even its most vulnerable residents.
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