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Canarsie resident convicted in 2013 lobby shooting

December 15, 2015 Meaghan McGoldrick
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A 25-year-old Brooklyn man has been convicted of murder for the 2013 shooting death of another man in the lobby of a FlatlandsĀ apartment building, announced District Attorney Ken Thompson on Thursday, December 10.

According to Thompson, on October 4, 2013, Canarsie resident Allen Ross aimed a handgun at Lamar Blackwood inside the Glenwood Houses on Farragut RoadĀ and fired, striking the victim multiple times and killing him.

Video surveillance captured a physical fight between the two men just moments before the shooting and after the defendant opened the lobby door for Blackwood. Ross is said to have fled the scene.

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ā€œThis murder is just another example of the senseless gun violence that happens all too often,ā€ said Thompson. ā€œThis defendant killed a young man over nothing and now will have many years in prison to think about the life he took.ā€

Ross was convicted on December 9 of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and will be sentenced on January 8, 2016, at which time he faces up to 25 years to life in prison.


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