Two Gang Members Convicted Of Murder and Running A Drug House Five Years Ago.
by Alex Lloyd Gross
Alex Lloyd Gross File Photo Delaware Valley News.com The police raid.
On March 13, 2020, SWAT conducted a raid on a home on Bridge Street that was used to store and sell drugs. This illegal drug store had been in operation for years and the members, used violence and threats to enforce payments and keep out competition. Members Kelvin Jimenez, aka “Nip,” 34, and Dominique Parker, aka “Dom,” 33, both of Philadelphia, went to trial and got convicted of all charges including racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracy, maintaining a drug-involved premises, assaults in aid of racketeering, firearms offenses, and related crimes. Jimenez was also convicted of the murder of Kaseem Rogers, and Parker of the murder of Dontae Walker.
Jimenez and Parker, along with Hassan Elliott, aka “Haz,” 26, and Khalif Sears, aka “Leaf” and “Lil Leaf,” 23, both also of Philadelphia, were charged in March 2023 by superseding indictment with conspiracy to engage in a racketeer influenced corrupt organization (RICO), violent crimes in aid of racketeering, to include murder, stemming from the killings of victims Rogers, Walker, Tyrone Tyree, and Philadelphia Police Sergeant James O’Connor, and numerous related offenses.
When the house on Bridge Street was raided, police tried to climb the stairway. That’s when Hassan Elliot fired 16 shots from a semi assault rifle and killed Sgt.James O’Connor. Elliot and Sears both enetered guilty pleas this year. All four also face state charges as well. Parker and Jimenez will be sentenced on July 7 2025. They face life in federal prison.
“By direction of these gang-leaders, Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood was subjected to deadly shootouts targeting rivals,” said Eric DeGree, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF’s Philadelphia Field Division. “This conviction brings some justice for the murder of Philadelphia Police Sergeant James O’Connor, for his family and colleagues, and for the three others murdered and more than a dozen wounded by this brutal criminal enterprise. Through our ATF agents’ hard work in cooperation with the Philadelphia Police Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office successfully prosecuted this series of cases to take down this lethal enterprise and make Philadelphia’s streets safer.”