The mother of the Brooklyn woman gunned down by gangbangers blasting from a Brownsville rooftop said her daughter’s killers should get locked up for life, after she testified in the first day of her daughter’s murder trial today.
Andrew Lopez, 20, fired from the roof on orders from his brother Jonathan Carrasquillo, 24, prosecutors charge. The two are being tried at the same time with separate juries hearing the testimony.
Zurana Horton, 34, a mother of 12, was shot and killed and an 11-year-old girl and a 34-year-old woman were also hit in the 2011 shooting.
“Some of the children still don’t know what happened to their mother,” Horton’s mom, Denise Peace, said outside the courtroom.
“When you ask the two babies who their mother is, they’ll point to me.”
Peace – who has lost three of her four children to gun violence – said she was surprised by the youth of the defendants.
“I feel that the one who killed my daughter should stay in for life. He’s a menace to society,” she said.
Carrasquillo told Lopez to get the 9 mm handgun because their gang, 8 Block, was beefing with rival crew Young Guns over territory, prosecutors said in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
“Carrasquillo told his brother, ‘Yo son, I know how to handle these motherf——,” said assistant district attorney Seth Goldman. “Get a ratchet [gun], go up on the roof and blow these mother—— heads off.”
Goldman said Lopez confessed to the shooting twice, but defense attorney Bernard Udell said neither of the statements were voluntary.
The only evidence against Carrasquillo is one witness who heard him tell Lopez, “Go get the gun and do what you have to do,” said defense attorney David Jacobs.
“Is that commanding someone to commit murder?” said Jacobs. “That’s a leap of faith as wide as this courtroom.”
Trial testimony continues tomorrow.
jsaul@nypost.com