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Prosecutor: Lamont Pride intentionally killed NYPD Officer Peter Figoski

Lamont Pride, the accused shooter in the murder

Photo credit: Joe Marino | Lamont Pride, the accused shooter in the murder of Det. Peter Figoski, appears in Brooklyn Supreme Court, December 20th 2011.

NYPD Officer Peter Figoski's four daughters and rows of uniformed cops glared at his accused killer in a Brooklyn courtroom Thursday as a prosecutor denounced defense efforts to portray the 2011 shooting of the West Babylon native as an accident.

Lamont Pride "intended to kill Pete Figoski because that was the only way he was going to escape," prosecutor Kenneth Taub told jurors during dramatic...

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