An East Flatbush man has been sentenced for fatally shooting his girlfriend inside their shared home before firing multiple rounds at her young family.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez says Peter Hibbert will serve 25 years to life behind bars for killing Jacqueline Wilson and attempting to harm Wilson\u2019s daughter, son-in-law and their newborn baby on May 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say the violence unfolded just before 3 a.m. inside a home on East 96th Street.<\/p>\n
Hibbert, 51, and Wilson, 49, had been in a relationship for around three years at the time.<\/p>\n
Hibbert shot Wilson multiple times, including in the head, torso and leg. He then pointed the gun at Wilson\u2019s adult daughter, her husband and their baby, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
Hibbert fired multiple times towards the young family as they rushed to seek shelter, barricading themselves inside a bedroom. Two more bullets pierced the bedroom door as they waited for the police to arrive.<\/p>\n
EMS rushed Wilson to the hospital, where she died.<\/p>\n
The young family made it out physically unharmed.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say police arrested Hibbert after they found him asleep in the basement of the home a short time later.<\/p>\n
He was convicted of murder and criminal possession of a weapon on March 18, 2026.<\/p>\n
“Jacqueline Wilson was shot to death inside her own home and others, including a terrified family with a six-week-old baby, were forced to barricade themselves to survive,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cThis was a senseless act of violence and I hope today’s sentence brings some measure of solace to the family, who endured unthinkable pain and trauma at the hands of this defendant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Flatbush man has been sentenced for fatally shooting his girlfriend inside their shared home before firing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-213232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213232","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=213232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}