Money Perkin’s Laundromat located at 4710 Clarendon Road in East Flatbush, pictured in 2022.
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Five Queens residents have been indicted in connection with the brutal murder of an East Flatbush laundromat owner who was shot 13 times and then robbed of his $30,000 gold chain last December, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Tuesday.
Money Perkins, 37, was ambushed by four assailants, all armed with handguns, inside his laundromat, Money P. Clean/Munir, located on Clarendon Road on Dec. 1, just before 6 p.m. in a murder plot allegedly orchestrated by Perkin’s cousin, Ronnie Butler, who had an ongoing dispute with him.
The DA’s office alleges that Butler plotted the assassination with a friend, who recruited his teenage stepson and two of the stepson’s friends to commit the murder.
Surveillance footage from inside the laundromat shows Perkins struggling with one of the gunmen as he is shot multiple times. One individual, allegedly Butler, is then seen slamming Perkin’s head on the floor multiple times and snatching a $30,000 chain from his neck, according to prosecutors.
“This was a shocking execution of a local businessman, friend, brother, and beloved father, which is all the more tragic as it was allegedly planned by his own cousin,” said Gonzalez. “A thorough investigation by the NYPD and my office unraveled the conspiracy and solved this horrific crime. We will now seek to hold all the defendants accountable.”
Over the course of the investigation, the DA’s office said it found that Butler and Perkins had a long-running dispute dating back to when Perkins opened his laundromat in 2022.
In November 2023, Butler allegedly asked his friend Luis Mercado, 48, to help him kill Perkins, according to the DA’s investigation which relied on digital communications between the defendants, as well as a video from Mercado’s home.
It is then alleged that Mercado recruited his stepson, 16-year-old…
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