Man convicted of fatally shooting woman, her friend and dog in feud over barking
Dec 05, 2025
A Manhattan man was convicted on Thursday of gunning down a man, a woman and the woman’s dog in a dispute over barking in Manhattan.
A jury found Lenue Moore, 34, guilty on all counts for the 2023 murder of Jacqueline Billini, 57, and Levaughn Harvin, 42, both of whom he gunned down alongside Bill
ini’s dog as Harvin’s children looked on in horror.
Moore faces life without parole at his sentencing on Jan. 28, but Billini’s brother said nothing short of the death penalty would bring justice to his sister’s killer.
“My sister was beautiful. She helped everybody. Everybody loved her,” Jose Bellini told the Daily News on Friday. “I wanted the death penalty.”
Moore gunned down Billini and Harvin on the corner of W. 165th St. and Edgecomb Ave. in Washington Heights around 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, shooting both of them in the head, prosecutors said.
Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily NewsPolice investigate after Jacqueline Billini, Levaughn Harvin and a dog (pictured) were fatally shot on W. 164th St. and Edgecombe Ave. in Manhattan on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)
He then turned his weapon on Zeus, Billini’s blue-nosed pit bull, gunning down the pooch.
Harvin’s children stood watching during the deadly outburst of violence.
Moore and Billini lived in the same W. 163rd St. apartment in Washington Heights, where Moore carried on a years-long feud against his neighbor over her barking dogs.
Billini’s brother said his sister often complained to her family about Moore’s harassment, and made multiple requests to the building’s management company to switch apartments in the years leading up to her murder.
“She asked to get moved (away) from that motherf—er,” Jose Billini said. “She asked to be moved three times.”
Five months before the fatal shooting, Moore kicked down Billini’s apartment door and burst inside on April 11, 2023, breaking her arm in the process, court documents show.
The video of the home invasion showed four of Billini’s relatives struggling desperately to hold the door shut as their neighbor battered the door. He swiped at the family with a hammer when the door opened wide enough, hitting two of them. Neither relative suffered serious injuries, prosecutors said.
The jury on Thursday also found Moore guilty of burglary in the April incident.
Billini worked as an analyst for the state court system in the Bronx and was close to retirement when Moore gunned her down, her nephew said following the murder.
“She worked 25 to 30 years with the government, and then this happens,” Luis Billini said. “It’s impossible for someone who served our country for 25 years to be done like this. A woman who was about to retire shouldn’t have to live that way, just constantly watching over her shoulder. It’s ridiculous.”
Janet Santana, a friend of Jacqueline Billini, said Harvin, who also lived in Washington Heights, had been accompanying Billini on her walks with Zeus for the two or three weeks before the killings as an informal bodyguard. Harvin was “like family to her,” Santana said.
Moore had no relationship with Harvin prior to the murder, Billini’s brother said.
“He never met him,” Jose Billini said. “He killed him because he was next to my sister.”
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