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Moore was sentenced to life without parole for the Washington Heights murders.
On Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Manhattan, Lenue Moore, 34, was sentenced to life without parole after a Dec. 4, 2025 jury conviction in the Washington Heights case of Jacqueline Billini, 57, Levaughn Harvin, 42, and Billini's dog Zeus. The sentence follows that conviction.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
Life without parole after a jury conviction is the judgment on those murder counts. It is not a new accusation. On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, a Manhattan court sentenced Lenue Moore, 34, to life without parole for fatally shooting Jacqueline Billini, 57, her friend Levaughn Harvin, 42, and Billini's dog Zeus in Washington Heights on Sept. 29, 2023. On Dec. 4, 2025, a jury convicted him of 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, plus earlier April 2023 burglary and assault counts from a neighbor dispute.
The April 2023 counts came from a neighbor dispute: a hammer through a door, and a broken arm. An order of protection was in effect. Moore monitored her through Ring footage. The ambush was near West 165th Street and Edgecombe Avenue. He fled on the M101 bus. Those are the facts behind the counts the jury already found. Wednesday's life-without-parole sentence is the judgment on the murder counts. It does not accuse him again.
Moore was arrested on Oct. 26, 2023, hiding under a bed in Brooklyn. The arrest is how the case began. It is not the sentence the court imposed on Sept. 23, 2026.
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