A Westchester mom is demanding justice for her son — so she’s suing the gangbanger who got a measly five-and-a-half years behind bars for killing him.
Heartbroken mom Paula Brown hopes the suit will bring attention — and possibly spark a probe into her son’s case.
“We feel like we did not get any justice,” said Brown, 64, whose son Dean Daniels was gunned down in 2014 by a drug selling Mount Vernon gang known as The Goonies.
Goonies member Ernest Webb was the triggerman who took out Daniels, 30, according to court records.
But he got a paltry 66 month sentence for his role in the murder.
Daniels had allegedly carjacked Webb two days before the fatal shooting, which Webb carried out, prosecutors contended, at the behest of fellow gangbangers Raheem Jones and Markel Overton.
But while Jones, 33, and Overton, 32, got lengthy, 20-plus year sentences for their role in Daniels’ death, Webb is expected to walk out of jail next year — which has prompted the victim’s mom to sue Webb in Manhattan Federal Court, and demand an investigation.
Brown claims prosecutors failed to keep her abreast of Webb’s case, and charged in her court filing that “the court and the US Attorney’s office was more interested in getting a conviction of the driver Markel Overton and passenger Raheem Jones than to prosecute the actual shooter, Ernest Webb.”
“… I truly believe if my family were wealthy or Dean was a white man, there would have been a different ending to this story,” the mom, who is black, wrote in the legal papers, which she filed without a lawyer.
She’s pushing for an investigation, insisting federal prosecutors didn’t keep her abreast of Webb’s case as they did with the other defendants. Brown also wonders why Webb got such a short jail sentence when a probation report suggested he receive 10 years behind bars.
“One day after a procedural adjournment, I went to court only to find out Ernest Webb had pled guilty and was cooperating with the US Attorney’s office,” Brown wrote in court papers, adding, “I was rocked to my core when I heard this defendant was sentenced to 66 months for the murder of my son. It was especially insulting for me and my family to sit there and hear US Attorney Aiden Chow, ask for leniency for this murderer.”
She recalled how Judge Nelson Roman admonished Webb, a father of two, “and told him how lucky he was to get this sentence and he better not do anything to mess this up or he was going to come back and go to jail,” mentioning the man’s two daughters.
“He never once said to my grandson, ‘My condolences,'” she said. “All I could do was just get up and walk out.”
The US Attorney’s office declined comment. An attorney for Webb did not respond to a message.