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A teen gunman who killed a former federal witness in the courtyard of her housing complex admitted he committed the murder to gain membership into a Brooklyn gang. Joe Santana, now 19, was 16 years old when the feds say he and another man gunned down Shatavia Walls on July 7, 2020 outside the Pink Houses — an East New York city housing development plagued by gang divisions and rivalries. Walls ...

Shatavia Walls, 33, was a complicated figure raised on the tough streets of East New York, a drug-dealing wife of a gang member with a long rap sheet to prove it, but she was also a woman who held down two jobs and took care of her aunt.