Dashawn Austin Wiki – Dashawn Austin Biography
Dashawn Austin also is charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment and other crimes in the July 12, 2020 shooting that claimed the life of little Davell Gardner.
Authorities had said two men walked up to a family gathering on Madison Street in Bed-Stuy before midnight that day and someone started shooting from across Raymond Bush Park. Gardner was shot in the stomach. He later died at a hospital.
Dashawn Austin Age
Dashawn Austin is 25 years old.
Charges – Arrested
The suspect in the fatal stray-bullet shooting of 1-year-old Davell Gardner in Brooklyn was charged this week in connection to the tot’s death, cops said Thursday.
Dashawn Austin, 25, was hit with multiple raps — including depraved indifference murder of a child under 11 years old — in the July shooting of the infant during a cookout at Raymond Bush Playground at Madison Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.
Three other men, ages 27, 35, and 36, were also shot during the gunplay and expected to survive, police said.
Days after that shooting, Austin was busted in connection to the murder of Janile Whitted, 26, in March 2020 outside Amour Cabaret on Nostrand Avenue near Herkimer Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said. He was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to that case.
At that time, he was being eyed as a suspect in the slaying of Davell. Those charges were filed against him Wednesday afternoon, while he was in custody in connection to the earlier murder, cops said.
Shooting Incident
The shooting happened amid of period of increased gun violence around New York City. More than twice the number of shootings was recorded that week over the same time period last year.
Addressing the senseless shooting in an interview with Sharpton a short time after it happened, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, “I’ve seen a lot of really troubling things in seven years now as Mayor, but a 1-year-old killed on a playground, and when I talked to his mom the next day, I mean the shock and the pain in her face and the tears streaming down her face.”
“We cannot make the mistake of the past – send in more and more officers without an attempt to actually work with the people whose community it is,” the mayor said.
The NYPD’s shooting database logged 43 shootings the week of Gardner’s killing, compared to 13 last year – that’s a 231 percent increase. The department says five people were killed in those shootings compared with 10 last year.
News 4 obtained data from the NYPD on shootings in New York City between January 1 and July 12 that reflect a 70 percent increase over the same period last year. One hundred fifteen victims of shootings this year have died – that’s up from 69 victims in the same six-month period last year.
Victim
| Ages | 2020 (777 Victims) | 2019 (456 Victims) |
| 0-9 | 7 | 3 |
| 10-17 | 46 | 34 |
| 18-24 | 215 | 125 |
| 25-30 | 223 | 123 |
| 31-40 | 185 | 97 |
| 41-59 | 91 | 67 |
| 60+ | 10 | 7 |