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Man Convicted of 2012 Far Rock Murder After First Trial Led to Hung Jury

By Katie Honan | June 29, 2016 4:59pm

EDGEMERE — A jury has convicted a 22-year-old man for the shooting death of Peren Phillippe in Far Rockaway, a year after the first trial ended with a hung jury.

Diamonte Alexander was found guilty Wednesday of manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in the 2012 death of Phillippe, 21, on Beach 44th Street, prosecutors said.

Jurors in an earlier trial had spent a week deliberating but wound up able to reach a verdict, according to the DA's office.

Diamonte Alexander first saw Phillippe as he got out at the Beach 44th Street subway station with a friend on Nov. 23, 2012, officials said.

Alexander followed Phillippe to a building on Beach 43rd Street, where he shot him in the thigh and foot, prosecutors said. Phillippe, who was expecting a child, was later pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital.

Alexander fled, but police spotted him a few blocks away. He tossed the gun under a dumpster during a chase with the NYPD, prosecutors said.

No motive was ever determined, officials said. 

Alexander is expected to be sentenced Aug. 10, according to the DA's office.