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<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>Suspects in Brooklyn shooting that killed two young moms ordered held without bail</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>Anthony Alexander, 18 and Nazir Saunders, 20, are accused killing two moms after opening fire on a group of people in a Brooklyn housing project courtyard </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>Chynna Battle, 21, and Shaqwanda Staley, 29, were killed in the shooting, on July 12</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>The two gangbangers opened fire into a crowd of people hanging out in the courtyard of Stuyvesant Gardens Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant &#8211; the victims were not the intended targets</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>US marshals tracked and arrested Saunders of Harlem and Alexander of Bedford-Stuyvesant Oct 31, in E. Rock Hill, South Carolina, 660 miles from the crime scene</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #080000;"><strong>They were extradited to Brooklyn for trial, they are charged in the slayings of Chynna Battle and Shaqwa</strong>nda Staley</span></h6>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-285664" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Anthony-Alexander-1.jpg" alt="Anthony Alexander, 1.jpg" width="1200" height="903" /><strong>Anthony Alexander [photo] is one of the two men accused killing two moms in their 20s after opening fire on a group of people in a Brooklyn housing project courtyard, in July</strong></h6>
<p>Two men accused of fleeing to South Carolina after firing the stray bullets that killed a pair of young moms in a Brooklyn housing project courtyard four months ago have been ordered held without bail.<br />
Nazir Saunders, 20, of Harlem, and Anthony Alexander, 18, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, were arrested on Oct 31, in E. Rock Hill, South Carolina, more than 660 miles away from the crime scene, by the NYPD and the U.S. Marshals.<br />
They were extradited back to New York and arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court Thursday night.</p>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-285660" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Chynna-Battle-left-and-Shaqwanda-Staley-right-1.jpg" alt="Chynna Battle ([left] and Shaqwanda Staley [right] 1.jpg" width="1200" height="735" />Chynna Battle [left], and Shaqwanda Staley [right], were killed in the July 12 shooting</h6>
<p>Saunders and Alexander are accused of blasting nine bullets into 20 people socializing in the Stuyvesant Gardens courtyard on Gates Ave. about 9:30 p.m. on July 12.<br />
Three bullets ripped into Shaqwanda Staley’s back. The 29-year-old left behind a 9-year-old daughter.<br />
Chynna Battle, a hostess at an Applebee’s on Fulton St. in Brooklyn, was found facedown on a bench with a gunshot wound to the head, police sources said. Battle, 21, who had a 3-year-old daughter. The victims were not the intended targets, police said.<br />
Alexander and Sanders allegedly, were trying to kill a rival gang member when they opened fire in the courtyard of the Stuyvesant Gardens housing project on Gates Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 9:30 p.m., police said.<br />
One witness told cops she saw two men from the Roosevelt Houses walk into the courtyard on Gates Ave. before one of them pulled out a gun and sprayed bullets into the crowd, sources said.<br />
The group of roughly 20 people had been drinking, playing cards and smoking out of a hookah, sources said.<br />
Cops found six .45-caliber shell casings and three .380 shell casings at the scene, indicating two shooters. A total of nine shots were fired into the crowd at about 9:30 p.m., sources said.<br />
Alexander, wielding a .380-caliber gun, fired twice, according to cops. Sanders fired six times with a .45-caliber gun.</p>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-285665" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Nazir-Sanders-1.jpg" alt="Nazir Sanders 1.jpg" width="1200" height="1056" /> One of the alleged killers, Nazir Sanders is walked by detectives from the 81st Precinct on Thursday night. He was caught in South Carolina after four months on the run</h6>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-285663" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/MYPD-officers-at-the-crime-scene-“It-happened-so-fast.-It-was-over-before-it-started”-one-victim’s-cousin-Bianca-Martin-said-of-the-shooting.jpg" alt="MYPD officers at the crime scene “It happened so fast. It was over before it started,” one victim’s cousin Bianca Martin said of the shooting.jpg" width="1200" height="675" />NYPD officers at the crime scene after the shooting at the Stuyvesant Gardens courtyard, Brooklyn on July 12</h6>
<p>“These defendants displayed an utter and complete disregard for human lives when they allegedly shot up a courtyard that was crowded with people,” Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.<br />
“Predictably, they struck two innocent bystanders, young women who left behind daughters, friends and loved ones.”<br />
Saunders and Alexander are charged with murder and gun possession.<br />
Both were ordered held without bail and are due to return to court Wednesday. They face up to 50 years to life in prison.</p>
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Suspects in Brooklyn shooting that killed two young moms ordered held without bail – Nazir Sanders and Anthony Alexander were captured Thursday in S. Carolina
