Apr 9, 1986 - Nov 19, 2012

JANUARY 19, 2018
By Dylan McGuinness GLOBE CORRESPONDENT 

A Brighton man was convicted of murder Friday in the 2012 shooting death of 26-year-old LeRoy Cooper, prosecutors said.

A jury found Patrick Malone, 26, guilty of second-degree murder and unarmed robbery, a lesser offense than the indicted charge of armed robbery, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office said in a statement. Malone is facing a mandatory life sentence.

“Mr. Cooper’s loved ones have spent five long years waiting to see justice done on his behalf,” Conley said in the statement. “No verdict can give them what they want and deserve most of all, which is for him to come back to their loving arms, but I hope they can take some comfort and satisfaction in this result.”

Prosecutors said Malone and another man led Cooper to believe they would buy marijuana from him in November 2012, but they actually planned to rob him. They shot him on Morrow Road. Police found him lying on nearby Leicester Street, where he was pronounced dead.

Cooper had come to Massachusetts from California to attend college. He studied hospitality at Newbury College in Brookline from 2004 to 2008 and played on the men’s volleyball team.

Malone, who was 21 at the time of the shooting, will be sentenced Monday. He would be eligible for parole in as soon as 15 years, district attorney’s spokesman Jake Wark said.

McGuinness can be reached at dylan.mcguinness@globe.com.

February 13, 2013
By Matt Rocheleau, Town Correspondent

One of two men charged with murder in the Nov. 19 fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man in Brighton will continue to be held without bail, authorities said.

At his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court on Monday, Patrick Malone, 21, of Brighton was ordered by a clerk magistrate to continue to be held without bail, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Malone has been held without bail since he was arraigned in Brighton District Court on Dec. 3, prosecutors said.

Since then, a Suffolk County Grand Jury has indicted Malone on charges of murder, armed robbery and illegal gun possession for the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Leroy Cooper, of Brewster, officials said. The indictment moved the case from the district court to the superior court.

Robert Williams, 21, of Brighton, has also been indicted on identical charges for the same incident, officials said. He is expected to be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on Friday.

Williams has been held without bail since his district court arraignment on Dec. 20.

On Nov. 19 at about 5:30 p.m., police found Cooper suffering from a gunshot wound near 114 Leicester St. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Prosecutors alleged Malone and Williams robbed Cooper of marijuana then shot him.

Malone was placed at the scene by a GPS monitoring bracelet he had been ordered to wear on Oct. 26, when he was arraigned on a cocaine trafficking charge in Dorchester District Court, authorities said. Cell phone records and witness statements also connect him to the killing, prosecutors said.

Cooper came to Massachusetts from California to attend college. He studied hospitality when he attended Newbury College in Brookline from 2004 to 2008 and played on the men’s volleyball team, college officials told the Globe previously.

E-mail Matt Rocheleau at mjrochele@gmail.com.

November 23, 2012 

Boston police identify victim of fatal shooting Monday in Brighton
By Sarah N. Mattero

Boston police today identified the man fatally shot on Leicester Street in Brighton on Monday.

Leroy Cooper, 26, of Brewster was found by police around 5:30 p.m. on the street suffering from a gunshot wound. 

Cooper was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.  

Cooper came to Massachusetts from California to attend college. He studied hospitality when he attended Newbury College in Brookline from 2004 to 2008 and played on the men’s volleyball team, college officials said.

On Tuesday on Leicester Street, where Cooper was discovered, residents described a chaotic scene the night before when police flooded the block.

“Thirty years living here and this is the first time that we have something like that,’’ said Roberto Alvarez, 75, adding that when police arrived, he could also see a car parked at an awkward angle next to a utility pole.

Rita Fahy, 89, said the street, which has three new houses under construction and is next to an elementary school, was quiet moments before police came.

“There was no excitement, until the next thing you know, bathed in blue light,’’ she said.

Asked if she had ever witnessed a comparable situation on the street, Fahy, who has lived there for 60 years, said, “Hardly.’’

Police asked anyone with information to call 617-343-4470 or to call their anonymous tip line, 800-494-8477.

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