Coney Island Based Gang Member Charged With Double Murder

CONEY ISLAND – Nabiu Mansaray, who is also known as “Monchichi” and “Chich”, age 33, was arraigned this afternoon in Federal court in Brooklyn on charges of racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, narcotics trafficking and unlawful use of firearms, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced.

Mansaray is the second member of a Coney Island-based gang that is known as “c,” “Mermaids,” “Rival Impact,” “R.I.,” and “33rd Street Crew,” to be charged with the 2010 murders of two members of a rival gang  known as “Thirty-O” – Terrance Serrano and Rashawn Washington.

Serrano and Washington, both of Coney Island, were shot and killed while sitting in their car after leaving a nightclub in Manhattan, just north of Union Square, authorities say. Daily News reported at the time that the two were believed to have been witnesses to other murders – including those of Serrano’s brother, Micuan Serrano in 2009, and that of Anna Surman – a Coney Island Grandmother who was killed by a stray bullet in 2009.

Mansaray’s co-defendant, Frank Smith  (also known as “Fresh,” “Freez,” and “Freezee”, 32), was previously arraigned on similar charges in the Eastern District of New York after his arrest on July 7, 2016, and is charged with additional racketeering acts. He faces life-sentence if convicted.

Mansaray was arrested by FBI agents on September 15, 2017 in Maryland.