A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to decades in prison for a 2023 shooting that shattered a family inside their East Flatbush home, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Eric Gonzalez announced that 51-year-old Peter Hibbert was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing his girlfriend, 49-year-old Jacqueline Wilson, and endangering others in the home during the same incident.
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Warin handed down the sentencing on April 28. Hibbert had been convicted on March 18, 2026, of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon following a jury trial.
Prosecutors said the violence unfolded in the early morning hours of May 7, 2023, inside a residence on East 96th Street. At approximately 2:55 a.m., Hibbert shot Wilson multiple times, killing her inside the home the couple shared after roughly three years together.
Also inside the residence were Wilson’s adult daughter, her husband and their newborn child.
After shooting Wilson, prosecutors said, Hibbert turned the gun on the couple. He fired as they ran into the bedroom and shut the door behind them. Two bullets pierced their door as the pair barricaded themselves inside with their infant, waiting for police to arrive. No one was struck.
Police later found Hibbert asleep in the home’s basement, where he was taken into custody.
District Attorney Gonzalez said the act of violence was “senseless,” and that this Hibbert’s sentencing will bring “solace” to Wilson’s family.
“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,” he said. “This 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.”
