Suspect admits gunning down victim at Brooklyn NYCHA project after he’s shown surveillance tape

Show surveillance video of him pumping bullet after bullet into Dyseem Jackson’s head outside a Brooklyn housing project, a suspect admitted to the murder, telling detectives he gunned down the victim for butting into an argument with a woman, prosecutors said Saturday.

Usamah Sidberry, 34, told police he was arguing with a woman outside NYCHA’s Albany Houses in Crown Heights shortly before midnight Thursday when Jackson intervened, court documents show.

The victim’s meddling enraged Sidberry, who ran to his apartment to grab a Smith and Wesson 9mm pistol, before confronting Jackson a second time, documents show.

The defendant’s tirade ended when Sidberry shot Jackson once in the back before unloading another 3 bullets into the victim after he fell shortly after midnight Friday, according to court documents.

Police responding to reports of an assault in progress found Jackson sprawled on the ground, dead at the scene.

Cops caught up with Sidberry Friday evening. When investigators showed him surveillance footage obtained from the NYCHA complex that showed a gunman executing Jackson, Sidberry said, “That’s me,” court documents show.

Sidberry was ordered remanded without bail at his arraignment Saturday in Brooklyn Criminal Court on charges of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

Sidberry has two prior felony convictions and three more for misdemeanors, prosecutors said.

Cops arrested Sidberry in 2008 for manslaughter after the then 21-year-old and another 19-year-old suspect allegedly beat a man to death at the Albany Houses the year prior, according to police.

Originally Published: July 13, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.