A body that was weighed down with “cement shoes” and washed ashore in New York on Monday has been identified as Peter Martinez, a member of the G Stone Crips crew affiliated with Bobby Shmurda, sources told DNA Info.
Police found the body of the 28-year-old man on Manhattan Beach, on the southern tip of Brooklyn, when a student from nearby Kingsborough Community College discovered it and called 911 on May 2. Martinez, who had been missing since February, was found wrapped in plastic with duct tape around his head and his arms tied behind his back. His feet were encased in a bucket filled with concrete, although whoever poured it let too much air in, causing it to rise to the water’s surface, officials said.
“His feet were submerged in poured concrete. Obviously a homicide,” NYPD Chief Robert Boyce said in a press conference on May 3.
Bobby Shmurda, who is in jail awaiting trial after his December 2014 arrest on drug and weapons charges, has also been tied to the GS9 crew. His trial is scheduled to begin May 11.
Despite the popularity of concrete shoes in the public’s consciousness from crime fiction, the method may actually be unprecedented in the U.S. “I’ve actually never seen cement overshoes before,” a police source told The Daily Beast.
Speaking with the New York Times, crime writer Mike Dash said he’d never heard of it happening in reality either. “It’s just one of those stories that goes around. I think you’ve got a first there, by the sounds of things.”
In a 2008 article researching the history of the practice, Cecil Adams concluded: “Either custom concretewear is 100 percent effective, and the victim invariably vanishes forever from the ken of man, or the whole thing’s a myth.”
Not anymore.
Damm..thats brutal. He must have done something REALLY bad to thoes guys in order for them to spend that much time on killing him.
I read on another site that his pregnant gf owed money. But damn how much for you to get killed like this
She’s also been missing according to that article
His gf didn’t owe money. He owed money.
His gf didn’t owe money. He owed money.
His gf didn’t owe money. He owed money.
That’s why I need to stop reading sohh lol Thanks I looked it up in the daily news. Still man that’s messed up
That’s why I need to stop reading sohh lol Thanks I looked it up in the daily news. Still man that’s messed up
Never understood why certain ppl play with their only life to be part of street life whether it be drugs or gang life. I know there are a trillion reasons why but why fuck around and cut your entire life in half just for that particular life style. Ppl must have a reset button built in somewhere on their bodies but in any case that’s some Dexter I’m gonna kill you slow type shit right here
That’s why I need to stop reading sohh lol
Thanks I looked it up in the daily news. Still man that’s messed up
they dumped that body bout a week agoo
“Concrete shoes” was never a myth, it’s an old Italian mafia thing from way back. Of course the mafia isn’t what it used to be, so most police these days have never actually seen or heard of a body with feet in concrete before.