Who Will the next Generation of Leaders Be?
Jason Garcia
By Dan Murphy
Like any criminal enterprise, the role of law enforcement is to put the leaders in prison, in the hopes that it will disrupt their illegal operations. But with most of these same illicit organizations, the next in line rises to the top and the organization continues.
A recent crackdown of the G-Shine Bloods gang in Mount Vernon NY has focused attention on this organized group of gang members and their operations in Westchester, but also up and down the East Coast.
As we previously reported, on April 7, Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah announced the successful prosecution of five G-Shine Bloods gang members and associates for conspiracy to murder an eyewitness. Between August 2018 and March 2019, Jason Garcia conspired with Matthew Brown, Cassaundra Dunham, Laquanna Kershaw and Damien Rickard to murder an eyewitness to a shooting outside the Garden Bar & Grill in Mount Vernon in 2016. At that time, Garcia and Brown were being held at Westchester County Jail awaiting trial on charges connected with the shooting, at which trial the eyewitness was scheduled to testify.
Another leader of the G-Shine Bloods gang in New Jersey was shot by a security guard in Florida in a strange incident. Bayshine Leary, 42, was gambling inside the Q-Time 777 Casino in Lake City, Flordia in Feb. 2021.
Leary got into a heated argument with someone in the casino and was removed. At 3am, he returned and attempted to shoot a female employee but his gun didn’t work. A security guard shot Leary dead.
Leary had a long criminal history in New Jersey, including a gun charge and conviction in 2005, and the unintended shooting of a 12 year old girl in a shooting with a rival gang. For the past 15 years, Leary was in and out of prison on gun and drug charges.
Most of our readers may only know about the Bloods Gang from their formation in Los Angeles in the 1970’s and 80’s. But the G-Shine Bloods, formerly known as Gangster Killer Bloods, formed along the East Coast in the 1990’s, primarily in New York and New Jersey. Now there are G-Shine Blood gangs in Virginia and North and South Carolina.
G-Shine Bloods primary source of income is the sale of a variety of drugs, including crack cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone. Guns are also bought and sold by G-Shine, but mostly for use by members to defend themselves from other gangs. Many overdoses occur as a result of the drugs sold by G-Shine.
Here in Westchester, the focus on G-Shine Bloods began in 2016, when a member of the gang, Matthew Brown, plead guilty 2nd degree attempted murder and conspiracy. Brown was ordered to shoot an individual who owed G-Shine Bloods gang leader Jason Garcia money from a marijuana sale. The individual survived and Garcia was sentenced to 20 years.
Another NY G-Shine Blood leader spending decades in jail is Howard Davis, aka “Mousey” and “Mr. Fedup.” Gun and drug convictions against Davis included obstruction of justice charge in which he got the mother of his child to perjure herself, which led to a dismissal of gun charges against Davis.
According to a Department of Justice report, The Nine Trey Gangsters were founded in 1993, the same year the United Blood Nation was established at Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York City, New York. Prior to the establishment of the UBN, The Bloods were formed in Los Angeles, California, in the early 1970s after several small street gangs banded together to protect themselves from their rivals, the Crips.
G-Shine is a Bloods Gang set that evolved from the United Blood Nation in the late 1990s. G-Shine originated in the New York/New Jersey area and migrated along the east coast and now has sets, or sub-groups, in multiple states including New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Shine Money Gang is a sub-set of G-Shine that is based in the Longs, South Carolina, area.
Another G-Shine Blood member who died recently is Robert Lockley, known as “The King” Lockley, escaped the heat he was under from police in New York City and set up in Newburgh, which has become another hot spot of gangs, drugs and guns. When he was arrested in 2010, Lockley was know as a high ranking member of the Bloods. He died in prison in 2015.
Some believe that the Bloods are fighting among themselves due to the death or long prison sentenes of their leaders. Some members have gotten into car stealing as a way to make a living.
