Man convicted of murder after New England's Unsolved story

BOSTON — A second degree conviction in a Boston murder that went unsolved for months.

In court, police said it was a tip to FOX25’s New England’s Unsolved that helped them make an arrest.

Thursday afternoon, a jury found 29-year-old Christopher Jackson guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 25-year-old Keosha Gilmore.

Prosecutors said Jackson shot her at point-blank range in Mattapan as she sat in a parked car with her boyfriend in 2012.

They believe he was in love with her, and that he killed her because she was not romantically interested in him.

The two were childhood friends.

The day after FOX25’s New England's Unsolved aired in February 2013, police got a tip about Jackson from Gilmore's step-mother.

Police then interrogated him just weeks later. A recording of that was played for the jury during the trail last week.

In that recording, homicide detectives can be heard asking Jackson about the New England’s Unsolved story.

• Detective: Did you happen to see the television thing we did? FOX25?
• Jackson: When it first happened you mean?
• Detective: No, we just did something with Bob Ward. Do you know who Bob Ward is?
• Detective: He's a guy on FOX25 who goes out and does things on New England's Unsolved as I think they're called.

Jackson was also found guilty of possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition and carrying a loaded firearm.

Jackson is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday morning.

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