After fatally shooting a working father, a Brooklyn man hid his pistol — which he fondly named Loretta — in a baby crib then cut off his dreadlocks in a failed attempt to evade capture, a prosecutor charged Tuesday.  But all of that didn’t help Daneel Edwards, 28, who is on trial for the April 2013 murder of 42-year-old Martin Williams.  The victim’s relatives audibly gasped and some stormed out of the courtroom when a video of the gunplay was shown during the trial. It depicted the defendant, standing next his girlfriend and a pal, waiting behind a vehicle then blasting away after a van driven by Williams pulls up.  “I tried to get my family not to see it but they wanted closure,” said the dead man’s father Winston Williams, 66. “It’s devastating. My son just never had a chance.”  The incident happened minutes after the two men crossed paths in a bodega.  “In broad daylight, in the afternoon, this defendant gunned down” the victim and then fled to a Crown Heights apartment where four children were present, assistant district attorney Melissa Carvajal told the jury during her opening statement in Brooklyn Supreme Court.  Defense lawyer Jason Russo said that Edwards was threatened, so he asked his pal to fetch him the gun from an upstairs apartment, anticipating the impeding confrontation.  “This was anything but an intentional murder,” he argued. “He was staying there to defend himself.”  The prosecutor said Williams was unarmed, but Edwards fired eight times, chasing him as he sped off before crashing into parked cars.  The defendant was then seen running up to a fifth-floor flat where the friend — who will testify for the prosecution as part of a plea agreement — sheared off his hair and saw him change cloths, Carvajal said.  The murder weapon was later found stashed in a crib.  Williams was a unionized steamfitter who left behind five kids, his father said.  The trial will continue Wednesday.
Daneel Edwards, 28, is on trial for allegedly killing Martin Williams, 42, last year in Crown Heights. Following the crime, Edwards allegedly stashed the weapon in crib and shaved his dreadlocks in order to avoid arrest.