{"id":148054,"date":"2026-02-28T02:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:15:07","slug":"nyc-man-waited-for-girlfriend-to-leave-ihop-before-murdering-her-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148054\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man waited for girlfriend to leave IHOP before murdering her: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 A man was sentenced to 25 years to life for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/manhattan\/man-accused-of-killing-manhattan-ihop-worker-was-waiting-and-pacing-for-hours\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:murder of his girlfriend;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">murder of his girlfriend<\/a>\u00a0as she was leaving her job at an IHOP, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Clarkson Wilson fatally shot her girlfriend back in Sep. 2022, after she attempted to end their six-month relationship, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More Local News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> More Local News <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wilson followed the victim to her workplace, where he waited nearby for nearly seven hours, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the end of the victim\u2019s shift, she departed her workplace, and Wilson followed her for several blocks before fatally shooting her, court documents say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video surveillance caught Wilson fleeing the scene and changing his clothing to avoid police before heading into the subway, court documents said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Andrew Cruz is a digital content producer. A native New Yorker, he joined PIX11 in 2009 as a weather producer. More of his work can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/andrew-cruz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 A man was sentenced to 25 years to life for the\u00a0murder of his girlfriend\u00a0as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3015,62096,15901,47211,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-148054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-alvin-bragg","9":"tag-clarkson-wilson","10":"tag-court-documents","11":"tag-girlfriend","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}