| After Man Charged With
Killing 69 Year Old Woman with
Machine Gun 2d Man Pleads Guilty
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 29 – After a woman with a
walker was killed in East
Harlem, on September 4 Federal
prosecutors announced, along
with NYPD Commissioner Jessica
S. Tisch, "the unsealing of a
Complaint charging FAISIL
McCANTS in connection with an
August 27, 2025, armed robbery
and shooting in which McCANTS
fired 15 rounds from a machine
gun on a public street,
striking and killing a
69-year-old
woman."
On
September 5 McCants, still in
jeans, was presented before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Chief Magistrate Judge Sarah
Netburn. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag Court.
McCants
had three supporters in the
gallery; the victim, it
seemed, was not represented.
With two Federal Defenders,
McCants consented to
detention, without prejudice
to a later bail
application.
On September 17
Inner City Press was in the
SDNY Magistrates court when
the co-defendant was brought
in by Marshals, in shorts and
a white T-shirt. His retained
counsel consented to detention
- then put on the record that
despite him being a member of
the SDNY for four decades
[including in the recent US v.
Sean Combs case] he had been
asked to give up his umbrella
upon entering, unlike the
prosecutors.
On January 29,
2026 Cordero pled guilty to
the lesser included charge of
Count 2, with sentencing set
for April 29.
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
The case is
US v. McCants, 1:25-cr-417
(Rakoff)
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