Peter Hibbert, 51, of East Flatbush, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting his 49-year-old girlfriend, then turning the gun on others in the house as they hid in a bedroom with a newborn baby.<\/p>\n
A Brooklyn man on Tuesday was been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting his 49-year-old girlfriend inside their East Flatbush home, then turning the gun on others in the house as they hid in a bedroom with a newborn baby.<\/p>\n
Peter Hibbert, 51, of East Flatbush, was convicted of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon on March 18, following a jury trial, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On May 7, 2023, at approximately 2:55am,\u00a0Hibbert fatally shot Jacqueline Wilson, 49, multiple times inside their residence on East 96th Street in East Flatbush. The defendant and the victim had been in a relationship for approximately three years and lived together in the home.<\/p>\n
Also inside the home at the time were the Wilson’s adult daughter, her husband and their newborn baby. After shooting Wilson, the defendant pointed a handgun at the couple and fired toward them as they fled into a bedroom and shut the door, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Two bullets pierced the door as the couple barricaded themselves inside with the infant while waiting for police. Neither the couple nor their baby were hit by gunfire.<\/p>\n
The defendant was discovered by police shortly after the shooting sleeping in the basement of the home and was arrested, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJacqueline 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,” Gonzalez said in a statement. “This was a senseless act of violence and I hope today\u2019s sentence brings some measure of solace to the family, who endured unthinkable pain and trauma at the hands of this defendant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Hibbert, 51, of East Flatbush, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-214957","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\/214957","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=214957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}