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.
