On an April morning in 2015, Daniel Weir, a 29-year-old male, was lured to his death by a phone call. The call brought him to the lobby of an apartment building at 139 East 53rd Street in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. There, at approximately 10:40 a.m. on April 15th, he was met by Keron Lynch, then 23, who was seeking retaliation. Lynch believed Weir was responsible for orchestrating an armed robbery against him two weeks prior.
In an act of vengeance, Lynch opened fire on
Weir with a. 40 caliber handgun. The attack was relentless, with Lynch shooting Weir nine times, hitting him eight times in the torso and once in the right arm. The violence unfolded in the building's lobby, shockingly in the presence of three women and a baby in a stroller. Lynch continued to shoot even after Weir had fallen to the ground. Emergency services transported Weir to Kings County Hospital, but his injuries were too severe, and he was pronounced dead.
The investigation into Weir's murder led police to Lynch just eleven days later. On April 26, 2015, officers responded to a notification from the ShotSpotter system near Howard Avenue and Saint John's Place. They found Lynch, who had been shot in the leg and foot during an exchange of gunfire with another individual. Lynch told police he had dropped his gun under a parked car. Authorities recovered the. 40 caliber weapon, and ballistic testing confirmed it was the same gun used to kill Daniel Weir.
Keron Lynch, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was arrested and stood trial for the murder. A jury found him guilty of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. During the trial, prosecutors highlighted that Lynch was a career criminal who chose to settle a score with deadly violence, showing a blatant disregard for the innocent bystanders in the lobby. In July 2017, a Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice sentenced Lynch to 40 years to life in prison for the murder of Daniel Weir.
