Moore was sentenced to life without parole for the Washington Heights murders.

A sentence after a conviction is the judgment on the counts the jury already found. It is not a new trial, and it is not a new accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, the court sentenced Lenue Moore, 34, to life without parole in state prison. On Dec. 4, 2025, a New York State Supreme Court jury convicted him on all counts, including Murder in the First Degree, Murder in the Second Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, Aggravated Criminal Contempt, and Aggravated Cruelty to Animals, and convicted him on the April 2023 counts, including Burglary in the First Degree and Assault in the Second Degree.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office account of what was proved at trial is a noise dispute with neighbor Jacqueline Billini. On April 11, 2023, Moore attempted to kick in her apartment door and broke her arm as she tried to hold the door closed. He swung a hammer through a crack in the door, striking another person. Billini reported it, and an Order of Protection was issued. Moore learned that Billini had testified before the grand jury. In the days before the shooting, he monitored her whereabouts using Ring camera footage. On Sept. 29, 2023, near West 165th Street and Edgecombe Avenue in Washington Heights, Billini, 57, was walking her dogs with her friend Levaughn Harvin, 42. Moore approached from behind and fired over a dozen shots at close range. Billini was struck in the forehead. Harvin was struck in the neck. Billini's dog, Zeus, was shot in the upper back. That is the trial narrative behind the Dec. 4, 2025 conviction. Wednesday's hearing imposed the sentence on those counts. It did not reopen the verdict.

Moore was arrested Oct. 26, 2023, in a Brooklyn apartment, where police found him hiding under a bed. On Oct. 10, 2023, officers executed a search warrant at a Queens apartment and seized the firearm used in the shooting. Moore was not there. An arrest and a seized firearm are the apprehension record. They are not a second case filed when the court imposed sentence. Life without parole is the judgment on the convictions the jury returned.