The case against a man accused of killing a member of rapper 50 Cent’s G-Unit has been unraveling for months — and now the accused killer will be set free, The Post has learned.
During a pretrial hearing in court Tuesday, Queens prosecutors told Judge Kenneth Holder that they were preparing to dismiss murder and attempted-murder charges against Jamal Scott in the 2014 murder of Mazaradi Fox.
Key prosecution witness Rayesha Brockington recanted testimony she gave in the case, and now claims that cops coerced her into identifying Scott, 37, as the killer.
“She gets on stand in the pre-trial hearing and says she was threatened by the police to make the ID and that if she didn’t testify and identify my client as the perp that the cops said they would take away her kids,” Scott’s attorney, Marvyn Kornberg, told The Post.
Scott was charged in February 2014, accused of unleashing a fusillade of bullets into a SUV occupied by Fox, Brockington and two others in South Jamaica.
Fox’s murder may have been retaliation for the 1998 killing of Scott’s brother, Curtis, police sources said. Fox was never charged with that murder.
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