Bone Crushing Gorillas gang member who at 15 took part in 2 Fort Worth murders is sentenced
A man who at 15 participated in the killings in Fort Worth of two men over six days, including a slaying that was related to a gang feud, on Friday entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Now 18, Dontrell Cummings pleaded guilty in an auxiliary state district court in Tarrant County to two counts of engaging in organized criminal activity-murder. In exchange, Justice Lee Gabriel sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Cummings will become eligible for parole after serving 20 years.
On Jan. 23, 2022, Cummings and Larrance Brown fired guns upon Chris Ramsey as Ramsey drove through the intersection of Sycamore School Road and Everman Parkway.
Ramsey died. A second person with him in the car was also shot but survived.
Fort Worth police documented Cummings and Brown as members of the Blood street gang subset Bone Crushing Gorillas.
The shooting was related to a feud between Bone Crushing Gorillas and YTN, a Crip set, a prosecutor wrote in a motion requesting that a judge set bond conditions in the case. Cummings and Brown were potentially shooting at a rival YTN member, but Ramsey was not a documented gang member.
Law enforcement authorities believe the target of the shooting, a documented YTN member, was in a different vehicle.
Cummings and Larrance Brown posted a video on Instagram taking credit for the shooting and bragged that they were responsible for the killing. Larrance Brown’s indictment has not been resolved.
Five days later, on Jan. 28, 2022, Cummings and Malichi Brown, then 17, took part in the killing of 25-year-old Levondric Ford, believing Ford to be in possession of drugs, and intending to rob Ford, according to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office account.
Ford was not in possession of drugs. He was in the process of placing his infant son in his car seat when Brown and Cummings opened fire in the 3900 block of Clotell Drive in Fort Worth. Ford had reached for a weapon to defend himself. Malichi Brown dropped a rifle as he left the scene. The shooters fled, then returned with another person to retrieve the rifle.
Malichi Brown, 20, last week accepted the state’s offer and pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in organized criminal activity-murder. Justice Gabriel sentenced Malichi Brown to 30 years in prison. He will become eligible for parole after serving 15 years.
Tarrant County Assistant District Attorneys Katie Owens and Dani Wojciak represented the state.. Defense attorney Leon Haley was retained to represent Cummings. Defense attorneys Tim Moore and Dewayne Huston were appointed to represent Malichi Brown.
In a proceeding on Friday as Haley reviewed Cummings’ options on the court record and asked whether he was certain he wanted to plead guilty, Cummings turned his head at looked to his mother in the gallery.
This story was originally published March 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM.
