A Brooklyn ex-con who pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal gun charge may be linked to a pair of 2024 Brooklyn murders committed by a gunman wearing a distinctive pink-and-black wig, court filings reveal.

Authorities suspected Thomas Weston, 37, had played a role in two Crown Heights slayings in September and October when U.S. marshals staged a pre-dawn raid at his apartment on Jan. 15.

The marshals, who were part of a regional task force, came knocking with a battering ram because Weston had violated his supervised release in 2021 from an earlier gun case , and the deputy marshal planning Weston’s arrest, David Roman, learned he was a suspect in two murders.

“I discovered that there was an overlapping investigation conducted by the NYPD,” Roman said at a suppression hearing in Brook

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