The ex-girlfriend of a Brooklyn man beaten and gunned down Wednesday after he refused to give her back her cell phone has been charged in his murder, according to NYPD cops and sources.
Crystal Smith, 38, got slapped with manslaughter and two counts of gang assault after her former beau, Dennis Morgan, 40, was gunned down shortly after 2:30 p.m. across the street from the Boulevard Houses in East New York, police said.
A neighborhood witness saw the former couple quarreling on Ashford St. near Linden Blvd. because Morgan had taken Smith’s phone and refused to give it back.
During the argument, another man, believed to be Smith’s son, approached to intervene and then called on several friends for help, according to the witness, a construction engineer who asked not to be named for fear of retribution.
The reinforcements arrived and began to beat Morgan to the ground, the man said. One of the attackers then shot Morgan.
“The shot went through his chest and out the back. He went down and I went over to help him. I told her that I was four years in the Army and not to touch him. I told him not to move. He couldn’t speak. There was so much blood coming from his mouth,” the witness said.
“It’s a damn shame — a human life lost over a cellphone,” he added. “They beat him up. Why did they have to kill him?”
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