Crime & Safety

NYC Man Kills Girlfriend, Sparks 2-Hour SWAT Standoff: Police, Reports

"I'm going to shoot everyone in the house," Peter Hibbert, 48, reportedly said after he killed Jacqueline Wilson, 49, early Sunday.

A Brooklyn man is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend Sunday, police said.
A Brooklyn man is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend Sunday, police said. (Peter Senzamici/Patch)

NEW YORK CITY — A Brooklyn man killed his girlfriend and sparked a white-knuckle two-hour SWAT standoff early Sunday, according to police and reports.

Peter Hibbert, 48, eventually surrendered and faces in a murder charge in the shooting death of Jacqueline Wilson, 49, inside their Brownsville home, police said.

Hibbert shot Wilson in her head, torso and leg about 3 a.m., authorities said. He then gave Wilson's daughter a chilling threat, the New York Post first reported.

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"I just shot your mother, and now I’m going to shoot everyone in the house,'" he said, according to the Post.

NYPD officers scrambled to a 911 call from the 230 E. 96th St. home near Clarkson Avenue, authorities said.

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Wilson's daughter had locked herself in a bedroom with her boyfriend a baby amid the violence, the Post reported.

Police, including SWAT officers, circled the house and eventually found Hibbert hiding in a crawl space under the home's garden, according to the Post's report.

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