On New Year’s Eve 2021, 29-year-old Joseph Leone Jr. was shot on a Staten Island sidewalk outside his father’s Rosebank home and later died at Staten Island University Hospital. Joseph Jr., a father of three from South Carolina, had traveled to New York to help his estranged father, Joseph Leone Sr., who was reported to be struggling with alcoholism after a recent fall.

Police responded to a 911 call reporting a shooting on Bay Street and found Joseph Jr. with a gunshot wound to the chest. Prosecutors say Joseph Leone Sr., 57, admitted at the scene and told officers that a shotgun in a garbage can was the weapon he used. Investigators recovered two shotguns and ammunition from the residence. The elder Leone, a U.S. Marine veteran with no prior record, was arrested and initially charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon and held without bail.

Does anyone have additional information about what happened that night or the case outcome?