Gunman gets 25 years for killing mother and her dog in brooklyn smoke shop shooting

Gunman gets 25 years for killing mother and her dog in Brooklyn smoke shop shooting

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July 18, 2025

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A Manhattan man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting a 36-year-old woman and killing her dog during a 2022 shooting inside a Bedford-Stuyvesant smoke shop, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced.

Namel Colon, 39, of the Lower East Side, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter last month and was sentenced Tuesday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Phyllis Chu.

According to the investigation, the shooting occurred on January 2, 2022, at approximately 9:45 p.m. when Colon exited a car and opened fire into Salim Smoke Shop at 488 DeKalb Avenue. The gunfire struck Jennifer Ynoa, a mother of four who was inside shopping with her dog. Both were killed. Ynoa had no connection to the shooter.

District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said, “This defendant brazenly opened fire into a store open to the public, killing a completely innocent woman and endangering everyone inside.”

Colon fled the scene and was arrested by NYPD’s Violent Felony Squad on February 22, 2022.

A mother and her dog were killed in a Brooklyn smoke shop shooting that has now led to a 25-year prison sentence.

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