Ex-con who killed two and wounded 96-year-old in NYC shooting spree is caught, cops say

An “armed and extremely dangerous” ex-con wanted for killing two people and wounding a 96-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after his four-day, possibly drug-fueled rampage spanning three boroughs, police said.

Sundance Oliver, 28, turned himself in at Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct stationhouse at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, just hours after NYPD brass announced that a manhunt was on for him.

He said nothing and did not bring the gun he used during the mayhem, according to police. The alleged gang member was charged with murder, assault, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of stolen property.

In video viewed by the Daily News, Oliver walked into the precinct with his hands up and a hood over his head. Officers inside pointed guns at him until one pulled him to the ground.

“With the dragnet pulling tighter, Oliver turned himself in,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said at a news conference Tuesday. “The subject has been arrested several times in the past. Today we begin the process of holding this brazen offender accountable for his actions and delivering justice for his victims.”

Oliver, who has the words “Rich Forever” tattooed on his face, started his rampage late last month when he, along with four other men, beat and robbed a man of $4,450 in cash at Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Houses, where he would later kill a 17-year-old girl.

On Saturday, he beat his girlfriend in the Bronx, said NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig. The next day he fired off two shots, hitting no one, as he robbed a bodega on Ralph Ave. in Brooklyn of $3,560, cops said.

On Monday, Oliver “begins his killing and bloodshed” as he pulled a gun on the girlfriend of Brandon Hampton, a rival who had opened fire at a car Oliver was riding in Friday, Essig said. No one was hit in the Friday shooting. Hampton was later arrested on reckless endangerment charges.

As Oliver robbed Hampton’s girlfriend of $50, according to police, the 21-year-old woman ran away. Oliver shot at her, but missed and instead hit a 96-year-old man in a motorized wheelchair some 200 feet away, at Bergen St. and Rochester Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.

The shooter ran toward the nearby Kingsborough Houses, police said, while the elderly victim, identified as Sandy DeWalt, was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

Oliver then made his way to the Smith Houses on the Lower East Side — near NYPD Headquarters — where he shot Kevon Langston, 21, about 2:40 p.m. in a sixth-floor apartment.

By then, police had already identified Oliver and were tracking him — but he again ran off, leaving behind a white Mercedes-Benz.

Langston, meanwhile, was rushed by medics to Bellevue Hospital, where he died, Sewell said.

Oliver then headed back to the Kingsborough Houses and allegedly struck again, at 12:12 a.m. on Tuesday. Police said he shot 17-year-old Keyaira Rattray-Brothers in the chest inside a seventh-floor apartment on Kingsborough Seventh Walk.

Rattray-Brothers, who lived about a mile away from the apartment where she was shot, died at Brookdale University Hospital less than an hour later.

“You hear about stuff like this all the time, but you never think it’s going to happen to your own flesh and blood,” the teen’s mother, Tasha Rattray, told the Daily News.

Detectives are investigating the possibility that Oliver was high on PCP during the three shootings.

While he was being questioned at the 77th Precinct stationhouse, Oliver became erratic and started breaking the bench in his cell, police said. He was taken to an area hospital for an evaluation before detectives could question him about the murders.

“Both homicide victims are known to perpetrator, but the motive is not yet known at this time as to why he killed them,” Essig said, adding that Oliver routinely visited the two apartments where the killings took place “to smoke marijuana.”

Oliver knew Langston well, according to Essig. At the scene where Rattray-Brothers was killed, the suspect knew a 17-year-old boy that he would smoke weed with.

The murder weapon has not been recovered, Essig said.

Cops have charged Oliver with the two robberies he committed this week, as well as the Nov. 21 robbery. He’s also been charged with attempted murder for shooting DeWalt.

Oliver is a member of the PD Gang, a crew known to commit robberies in and around the Kingsborough Houses, Essig said.

Oliver has been arrested more than two dozen times stretching back to 2009, according to police sources. Four of his arrests involved guns, cops said.

Besides being a member of the PD crew, he’s also affiliated with two other street gangs, the Loopy Gang in lower Manhattan and the Pink Gang in East New York, Brooklyn.

Oliver was paroled in July 2020 after serving five years for a Brooklyn robbery conviction, records show. He’s been arrested twice since then, but he was able to dodge both charges.

In September 2020, he was busted in Brooklyn for possession of a loaded gun. After he was held for 18 months, the case was dismissed because the search was deemed illegal. The officers involved in the search have been accused of illegal gun recoveries in the past, sources said.

Most recently, Oliver was shot on Aug. 27 during a clash in the Kingsborough Houses. He was busted for gun possession again, but the case was deferred as prosecutors could not immediately determine the weapon belonged to him.

While sources with the district attorney’s office told The News that Oliver was not in possession of the gun, police sources said officials are still waiting on DNA results to come back to pursue charges.

It was not immediately clear why these charges did not constitute a violation of his parole.

Oliver had lived with his foster mother in the Smith Houses apartment on South St., but moved to a shelter sometime before Tuesday’s arrest, police said.

He had a troubled upbringing and repeatedly ran away from his foster home when he was 15, police sources said.

Relatives reported him missing to police on nine separate occasions between January and June 2010.

A year earlier, cops were called to his mother’s home on a report that Oliver was emotionally disturbed and acting erratic.

When Oliver was 14 and skipping school, he was enrolled in a program at the Center for Human Development and child services, where he was mentored by Anthony Headley.

“It was just sad to see his face pop up [on the news],” Headley said. “Everyone has a manhunt for him now, but who had a manhunt out for him when he was going through it?”