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# Coney Island Man Convicted Of Shooting Teen, Dog On Christmas Eve
- URL: https://bklyner.com/coney-island-man-convicted-shooting-teen-dog-christmas-eve-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2016-04-15T00:17:58.000Z
- Updated: 2016-04-15T00:17:58.000Z
- Author: Alex Ellefson
- Tags: Bensonhurst, News, Nonsponsored, Western Brooklyn, 60th Precinct, a day in kensington, coney island crime, District Attorney, murder, #wp

![Jerome Leslie. (Photo provided by the Brooklyn DA)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/unnamed.jpg)

Jerome Leslie. (Photo provided by the Brooklyn DA)

A Coney Island has been convicted of murder for the [2013 shooting](http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2013/12/17-year-old-shot-to-death-in-coney-island-on-christmas-eve/?ref=bklyner.com) of a teenager walking his dog on Christmas Eve, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced Thursday.

Jerome Leslie, 20, faces a life sentence for the shooting, in which he allegedly ambushed his victim outside an apartment building across the street from Kaiser Park. His target, 17-year-old Yaquin English, was shot seven times when he returned home after walking his pitt bull. The dog received a bullet wound in the paw, according to authorities.

Prosecutors say the murder was the result of a weeks-long argument on Facebook related to Leslie’s relationship with English’s cousin. A witness testified Leslie threatened to kill English during their social media dispute, according to the DA’s office.

“This defendant escalated an online dispute into a deadly shooting. He took a life for no reason at all and will now pay for it dearly by spending many years in prison,” Thompson said in a press release announcing the conviction.

Leslie was arrested for the murder on February, 2014 and confessed to the shooting when he was questioned by detectives, according to prosecutors. [The New York Post](http://nypost.com/2014/02/09/daily-blotter-73/?ref=bklyner.com) reports Leslie was already in jail for marijuana charges when cops connected him to the murder.

Leslie has been convicted of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison, the DA says. He will be sentenced on May 4.