FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Brownsville Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Shooting
That Wounded Three-Year-Old Girl
Defendant Opened Fire on Perceived Gang Rival,
Struck Toddler Leaving Daycare with Father
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a Brownsville man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2022 shooting in which a three-year-old was struck in the shoulder as she was leaving daycare with her father.
District Attorney Gonzalez said, “When violent gang members treat our streets like shooting galleries, innocent families pay the price. This defendant nearly killed a precious three-year-old on her way home from day care, and he will now be held accountable with a lengthy prison sentence. With gun violence in Brooklyn at a record low, my office will continue to relentlessly dismantle gangs until every Brooklyn resident can walk home in safety.”
The District Attorney identified the defendant as Daleek Habersham, 26, of Brownsville, Brooklyn. He was sentenced today by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun to 15 years in prison. The defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder on June 11, 2025.
According to the evidence, the defendant was a member of the Brownsville-based CHOO gang and was charged as part of a 2022 takedown targeting CHOO and its rival crew, WOOO.
The crews were linked to dozens of shootings across Brooklyn between 2020 and 2022, including incidents that left two people dead and several innocent bystanders wounded.
The District Attorney said that, according to the evidence, on March 25, 2022, at approximately 6 p.m., the defendant exited a BMW on Riverdale Avenue near Amboy Street in Brownsville and opened fire in the direction of a man placing a child into a car, mistakenly believing him to be a member of rival WOOO gang. Instead, the defendant struck a three-year-old girl walking nearby with her father, hitting her in the shoulder. Responding officers rushed the toddler to Brookdale Hospital, where she survived after emergency medical treatment.
The next day, the defendant sent a screenshot of a news story about the shooting to a private Instagram group with the message “did bad.”
In total, 32 alleged gang members of the WOOO and CHOO gangs were indicted in 2022 on 106 counts, including 19 shootings that left 14 people injured and two dead. The takedown also resulted in the recovery of 27 firearms.
The District Attorney thanked Assistant District Attorney Kelly Maloney, Deputy Chief of the District Attorney’s Domestic Violence Bureau, and Paralegals Tania Lopez and Dian Fields-Vernon, of the Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau, for their assistance on the case.
This case was prosecuted by Senior Assistant District Attorney Winnie Choi, of the District Attorney’s Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Gillian DiPietro, VCE Deputy Chief, Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Cilia, VCE First Deputy Chief, and Assistant District Attorney Alfred De Ingeniis, VCE Bureau Chief.
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