A jury convicted a Gary man Friday in a revenge slaying.
Martell Flippins, 36, of Chicago, was found guilty of murder and a gun enhancement in 24-year-old Pierre Patterson’s March 12, 2023 death around 3:15 a.m. near 50th Avenue and Broadway. He could face up to 85 years.Authorities allege Flippins was one of two shooters who gunned him down in the middle of Broadway after Patterson allegedly shot Flippins’ brother dead at a Calumet Township club a year earlier.
Flippins later sent coded letters to a woman asking her to get a story straight for him and reach out to a relative to also back up his alibi. What helped the prosecution’s case was another letter Flippins sent her where he appeared to acknowledge that “things are not looking good for him,” Anderson said.Patterson was a “known suspect” in the March 6, 2022 death of Lavell “Big Slab” Hughes, 26, in front of “many witnesses” at Trendsetters Bar in Calumet Township.
Flippins was texting with multiple people in the vehicle as he tracked Patterson before he died, Anderson said. One was “Baby Blitz”, a man they never identified. Several hours later, “Baby Blitz” sent Flippins a cell phone video showing police surrounding Patterson’s body at the scene.Another person Flippins was texting was the same woman he asked to back up his alibi, showing they weren’t together when it happened, Anderson said.
An expert said it matched two casings found at the murder scene. He couldn’t say the specific “characteristics.” The cell phone video that “Baby Blitz” sent didn’t mean he was involved or filmed it, the lawyer said. It was a “tragic” chain of events where two people ended up dead. There could have been another reason to send a video someone else forwarded.The affidavit alleges Flippins’ green SUV was parked for 1 1/2 hours in a bar parking lot, before he drove around to “ambush” and shoot Patterson.
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