Man sentenced to life in prison for 2012 murder

BOSTON — A man has been sentenced to life in prison after a tip stemming from a FOX25 news report got him convicted of murder.

Christopher Jackson, 29, was found guilty in the shooting death of 25-year-old Keosha Gilmore in 2012 while she sat in her car with her boyfriend.

"Everybody keeps saying I'm sorry for your loss," Gilmore's stepfather Herman Weathersby said in court. "But we didn't lose Keosha. We didn't go to a park or a family vacation and lose Keosha. She was murdered and taken away from us by Christopher Jackson."

In 2013, after FOX25 aired a story about the unsolved murder, police got a tip about the case that led to Jackson's arrest.

"I noticed he wasn't at the funeral and then after the wake. A year went by, I hadn't thought about him, not one time, until I saw the special," Gilmore's stepmother Michelle Ross said.

The pair were childhood friends and prosecutors say Jackson shot Gilmore at point blank range because she wasn't romantically interested in him.

Police said in court, the tip from GIlmore's step-mother came in the day after FOX25's New England's Unsolved aired a story on the case.

Jackson was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 15 years, which includes some credit for time already served. He has serving some sentences for gun convictions, which ran concurrently.

"She continues to rest in peace," Gilmore's mother Gloria Weathersby said. "She is peaceful. She's our angel, which she always has been. Just with different wings."

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