A reputed gang member who allegedly left a trail of destruction through Brooklyn in a stolen car over the weekend — while out on parole for paralyzing an NYPD cop in 2017 with another pilfered vehicle — is back behind bars for now.
Justin Murrell, 19, was ordered held on $25,000 cash bond in a virtual court hearing in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon, after he was busted early Sunday morning in East New York driving erratically in a stolen car, prosecutors charged.
At the arraignment, prosecutors detailed the wild and destructive chase he allegedly led cops on while behind the wheel of a stolen Honda Accord.
Cops first responded to a ShotSpotter alert near Pennsylvania Avenue and Stanley Avenue around 1:20 a.m. and saw Murrell speeding at about 50 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone, prosecutors said.
Murrell then mounted a curb to escape the cops — and ended up crashing into three cars at the nearby intersection of Wyona Street and Riverdale Avenue, prosecutors allege.
A photo of Justin Murrell’s vehicle shows extensive damage. G.N.Miller/NYPostHe then ran a red light and sped into oncoming traffic — before crashing into two other cars at New Lots and Georgia Avenue, where he was finally arrested by cops nearby, according to prosecutors.
A driver and passenger in one of the cars Murrell allegedly rammed at that intersection were both injured, prosecutors said.
The passenger suffered ankle inflammation and was treated at a nearby hospital, while the driver had “substantial pain to the chest,” according to a criminal complaint against Murrell.
Murrell was hit with a slew of charges for the Sunday morning fiasco, including assault, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of stolen property, failure to comply with a traffic control sign and driving on sidewalks.
Murrell, a reputed member of the Eight Trey Crips and G Stone Crips gangs, was convicted of assault charges in 2018 for dragging former cop Dalsh Veve for several blocks following a 2017 traffic stop in East Flatbush when he was 15.
Dalish Veve, who was paralyzed by Justin Murrell, seen in a wheelchair. R.UmarAbbasiVeve suffered brain damage when he was thrown off the car as Murrell was speeding away, and was paralyzed by the injury.
Murrell was tried as an adult for the crime, but was sentenced as a juvenile to 1-1/3 to four years in detention for the incident.
He has a short time left on parole in the case, which was highlighted Monday by his attorney, Ellen Sacks, who urged the judge to set a “reasonable” bail amount.
