Barking possible cause of neighborhood anger that left two people and their dog dead in New York

NYPD is looking for Lenue Moore as a suspect in the shooting death of two people and their dog in a park in Upper Manhattan (NYC) because he was apparently upset by barking pets in one of the victims’ apartment.

Apparently the double homicide was the closing of a long dispute between Moore (31) and her neighbor Jackie Billini (57). She, her friend Levaugh Harvin (42) and their pit bull dog Zeus were shot to death outside Highbridge Park on Friday around 6.30pm.

Billini’s relatives have told police that Moore was aggravated by the barking of the three dogs she kept in her apartment. According to detectives, the suspect was lying in wait on a Washington Heights street on a rainy Friday shortly before the crime, he noted. DailyNews.

Previously, in April, the alleged killer kicked in the door of his neighbor Billini’s apartment on W. 163rd St. with a hammer in his hand to attack her and her family, angered by the three dogs, according to charges filed at the time in court. Manhattan Supreme.

Police have not located Moore at this time. According to witnesses, Billini and Harvin were shot to death while his children watched.

A nephew of the victim, Luis Billini, said that in April the burly, 290-pound Moore forced his way into his aunt’s home and she ended up with her right arm broken in the attack caught on video.

He was charged with robbery and assault with a weapon with intent to injure. Moore was free on $5,000 bail in Manhattan Criminal Court and ignored a protective order requiring him to leave the building after the hammer assault.

Billini worked as an analyst for the state court system in the Bronx and was close to retirement, his nephew added.

No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.

Violence between neighbors and roommates is a constant in New York. A 41-year-old man was shot during a fight between neighbors in Staten Island (NYC) early Sunday morning, just 30 hours after the double homicide in Upper Manhattan.

The previous week, Frank Pompilii, an 81-year-old man, was stabbed to death while trying to break up a fight between neighbors on the block from his home in Sunnyside Terrace, Staten Island.

After being searched for six months, in September a man was arrested on suspicion of shooting his roommate to death in the apartment they shared in Harlem (NYC), in an apparent argument over a soda.

In August, a mother was attacked with a hammer by her roommate, who left her two children seriously injured in Brooklyn (NYC). Days earlier, a 57-year-old man who was left in a coma several weeks after being punched by a neighbor and falling on Staten Island (NYC), died from his injuries.

In June, Terrence González died at the age of 31 in a New York prison where he was serving a sentence for fatally shooting his neighbor Lateef Butler in Yonkers.

In May, a suspect turned himself in to police for allegedly shooting his neighbor in the Bronx. Another man died upon returning home after spending 11 days hospitalized after being stabbed by his Hispanic neighbor in that same county.

In March, a woman stabbed her neighbor, a 27-year-old father of two, to death during an alleged argument over noise in a building in the Bronx. At the end of January, a 62-year-old man was murdered in his apartment in the Bronx and his Latino roommate was arrested as a suspect.

In December, a 46-year-old ex-convict turned himself in to police on suspicion of fatally shooting his neighbor in the middle of a long argument over the noise he was making in his Bronx residence. Also that month, a 27-year-old model was stabbed to death by her roommate at a shelter in Midtown Manhattan because she was apparently listening to loud music.

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