Young Brooklyn Shooter Gets 25 To Life For 2017 Slaying: DA

CROWN HEIGHTS, NY — A 22-year-old faces 25 years to live in prison years after he fatally shot another man in Crown Heights in an attack caught on video surveillance, prosecutors said.

Rennie Patterson, now 22 but 17 at the time of the attack, was convicted in September of second-degree murder and weapons charges related to the 2017 killing, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez's office.

Patterson now faces a hefty sentence after prosecutors said he shot and killed 32-year-old John Barnes on Saint John's Place near Schenectady Avenue.

"The defendant in this case coldly executed another man by shooting him in the head," Gonzalez said in a statement. "Acts of gun violence in Brooklyn will always lead to severe consequences."

Video surveillance caught Patterson leaving a building near his home on Dec. 16, 2017 about 1:40 a.m., walking with a friend and landing outside a deli — where they encountered a Barnes driving his car, prosecutors said.

Patterson shot at the car — hitting Barnes twice in the head — and ran back to their homes, prosecutors contend. Patterson wasn't arrested until July 2018, prosecutors said.

Barnes and Patterson had issues before the shooting and had been seen in a physical fight days before, according to the District Attorney's office.