A jury convicted a Newark man of murder Tuesday for shooting another man to death for urinating in his neighborhood last year, authorities said.

Christopher Poole, 26, was also convicted of two weapons possession charges in the killing of Rasheed “O.J.” Olabode, 27, who pleaded for his life before he was shot.

“The victim did not know the defendant but shot him at point blank range in cold blood as he begged for his life, all because the victim urinated on the defendant’s block,” said Assistant Prosecutor Jason Goldberg. “It’s hard to imagine a more senseless murder.”

Olabode, an amateur photographer who recently immigrated to Newark from Nigeria, was shot about 10:45 a.m. on April 26, 2018. Prosecutors said Olabode and two of his friends were running errands when Olabode needed to use the bathroom.

“Seeing none nearby, he jumped out of his vehicle in the 700 block of South 20th Street and urinated in the street behind his car,” acting Essex County Prosecutor’s Theodore N. Stephens II, said in a statement.

Poole, who lived on the block, was “incensed at the sight of the victim urinating (and) walked into his house across the street and retrieved a gun,” Stephens said.

Olabode was shot in the chest as he begged for his life, Stephens said, adding that Poole was unaware the victim’s friends were in the car and had witnessed the shooting.

After he was shot, Olabode ran to his friends and they drove off, flagging down a police officer on South 18th Street. An ambulance took Olabode to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Poole, who has four prior criminal convictions, faces life in prison without parole when he is sentenced on Jan. 31.

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