#Alleged teen gunman behind J’Ouvert shooting in Brooklyn ordered held without bail

Donovan Bailey, who is being prosecuted as an adult, was remanded late Tuesday in a Brooklyn court appearance that saw him plead not guilty to charges including attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, court records indicate.

The alleged teen triggerman — whom police sources have identified as a reputed member of the Crips — was clearly seen on surveillance video wearing a gray-and-white hoodie and a large black fanny pack as he strolled with a group of J’Ouvert attendees down Nostrand Avenue around 2:45 a.m. Monday, according to a criminal complaint.

When the group reached Nostrand’s intersection with Crown Street, Bailey allegedly pulled out a gun and opened fire, in what sources have characterized as the latest strike in a long-running gang beef with the Folk Nation crew.

At the time, the streets were rife with revelers celebrating J’Ouvert, the historically troubled annual run-up to the West Indian Day Parade, which was canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Six people were struck in the fusillade, among them Patricia Brathwaite and her 6-year-old son, Maxwell Cesc-Dinho.

One slug ripped through both of Maxwell’s little legs, shattering one femur, according to the distraught mom, who had a round go through her foot.

Responders initially tallied five victims, but a sixth emerged early Wednesday when a 38-year-old man walked into Brooklyn Hospital with a graze wound to his ankle that he said was sustained in the barrage.

After allegedly unleashing hell, Bailey fled in a silver vehicle, which sources have said was reported stolen from East Flatbush on Sept. 3.

He made it to Nostrand Avenue and Lincoln Road, where he was caught on surveillance video getting out of the car and changing into a blue hoodie, court papers show, in an apparent attempt to throw off the police flooding the area.

But he was instead nabbed at the intersection, and cops allegedly found a .40-caliber handgun with an extended magazine inside his fanny pack, according to the criminal complaint.

Four shell casings recovered at the scene of the shooting were matched to the gun by forensic experts, according to prosecutors.

Kervins Noel, 21, was also arrested in the area shortly after the shooting because he was caught packing heat, cops have said.

A shooting victim from the J’Ouvert Festival being taken to an ambulance

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Scene of a shooting at Nostrand Avenue and Crown Street

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Noel was hit Tuesday with weapons possession charges and held on $25,000 bail, public records indicate, but he has not been implicated in the shooting itself.

Bailey — who has 12 prior arrests, according to sources — is due back in court on Friday for hearings on both the Labor Day shooting and an ongoing July 2019 case, in which he and three others allegedly stuck up two men at knifepoint at Veterans Avenue and East 69th Street in Bergen Beach.

A spokeswoman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said prosecutors requested $5,000 bail in the latter case, but that Bailey was instead allowed to go free.

Lawyers listed in public records as representing Bailey in each of the two cases did not immediately respond to requests for comment.