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NYPD Officer Figoski's shooter convicted of felony murder

On left, a police officer looks on at

Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy; Guilford County Sheriff's Office | On left, a police officer looks on at the scene where Peter Figoski was fatally shot in Brooklyn on Dec. 12, 2011. On right, a 2009 photo of Lamont Pride taken while in custody at the Greensboro Detention Center in North Carolina. Pride was found guilty of second-degree murder.

An ex-convict was found guilty Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting of NYPD Officer Peter Figoski but was acquitted of the top charge of intentional murder of a police officer.

The jury of 10 women and two men found Lamont Pride, 28, not guilty of aggravated murder but convicted him of felony murder after finding Pride had shot Figoski, a West Babylon resident, while committing the...

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