A paroled gangbanger accused of gunning down a Brooklyn teen in March was taken into custody in Georgia by NYPD detectives, police said Saturday.
Culture Bermudez, 27, was brought back from Clayton County on Friday and charged in the March 13 slaying of 17-year-old Bryan Sanon, cops said.
Sanon had left home to go for a walk with friends when a gunman hopped out of the back seat of a silver sedan and opened fire on the group
on E. 82nd St. near Farragut Road just after 10 a.m.that day. The teen died at the scene.
Cops identified Bermudez as a suspect following a brief investigation but he’d already fled the state, police said.
Bermudez, a member of the Hood Starz street gang, served six years in prison
for shooting a rival at the Marcus Garvey Houses in Brownsville in 2011. He was released in 2017 and was on parole until 2022, according to court records.
On the day her son died, Juliana Gopie-Sanon was at a doctor’s appointment when she saw an alert on Citizen –– an app that sends out notifications of reports of nearby crimes — that a teen had been shot near her home. She never imagined it would be her child.
