Poughkeepsie teen pleads guilty to murder in city shooting, faces life in prison

A City of Poughkeepsie teen faces life in prison after pleading guilty in a fatal shooting earlier this year. 

Jason Brink, 15, plead guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday before Dutchess County Judge Edward McLoughlin.

He admitted "to intentionally causing the death of the 28-year-old victim, Shaheed James, by shooting him in the head," said Robert J. Knapp, bureau chief of the narcotics unit for the Dutchess County District Attorney’s Office.

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