WHITE PLAINS – A Newburgh man who is a member of “Southside,” a violent street gang in the City of Newburgh, pled guilty in White Plains federal court on Friday in the murder of a gang rival after an altercation broke out at a Valentine’s Day-themed party at a Newburgh club.
Troy Young, 24, also known as “Hollywood,” was charged with shooting Gevontay Owens-Grant, 21, on February 12, 2017.
Many other people fired guns inside and outside the club that night, and several others were injured, including Young, who was partially paralyzed after being shot the same night he killed Owens-Grant.
Young was arrested in January 2018 after a multi-year investigation by the FBI’s Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force and Newburgh City Police into gang violence in Newburgh.
In June 2017, an indictment charged 20 members and associates of Southside with racketeering conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy, and firearms charges.
A superseding indictment in January 2018 charged Young with additional firearms counts, added additional firearms charges against certain defendants, and charged four with committing two separate murders as part of their involvement in Southside, including the murder of Owens-Grant.
To date, 18 defendants have pled guilty.
