A fight sparked when a teen insulted another girl’s hair weave led to a Brooklyn man’s tragic murder, prosecutors said Thursday.
Denzel Holder, 21, shot and killed Shawn Williams, 19, after Holder’s gal pal made fun of Williams’ girlfriend’s hair.
“Shawn Williams was shot in the back because two groups of young women were fighting over a hair weave,” prosecutor Edward Purce said in his opening of the Brooklyn Supreme Court murder trial.
“If it wasn’t such a tragic incident we would probably laugh because it’s so pathetic.”
The violence was sparked when a group of teen girls, including Holder’s girlfriend, Shatasia Meggett, insulted Williams’ girlfriend, Sheniqua Cunningham, as her and Williams walked down a Crown Heights street in August 2011, prosecutors said.
“She didn’t look as glamorous as them so they thought they could make fun of her,” the dead man’s sister, Tiara Haynes, said outside court.
“They said something about her hair, and that their boyfriend wouldn’t let them walk out of the house looking like that.”
Cunningham and Meggett began to argue and fight and somebody called Holder to come quick – and when he got there he shot and killed Williams, prosecutors alleged.
“He fired into the defendant merely because he came into an argument over a hairweave,” Purce said.
Defense attorney Gregory Watts told the jury that his client was at the shooting but wasn’t the gunman.
Holder faces charges including intentional murder, a class A felony that could get him life in prison.