New Jersey gangster sentenced to life in prison for killing Nigerian who was urinating in his street (photos)

A Newark gangster was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a photographer urinating on his block, authorities said.

Surveillance footage shows Rasheed “O.J.” Olabode, 27, begging Christopher Poole, 26, not to shoot him on April 26, 2018, authorities in Essex County said.

But Poole pulled the trigger and killed Olabode -- an amateur photographer and recent Nigerian immigrant.

The incident occurred around 10:45 a.m. when Olabode was out in Newark running errands with two of his friends.

Olabode needed a restroom, so he jumped out of the car on the 700 block of South 20th Street and began urinating behind the vehicle.

Poole, who lives on the block, apparently incensed at the sight of the victim urinating, walked into his house across the street and retrieved a gun, said Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Michael Burke, who tried the case with Assistant Prosecutor Jason Goldberg.

He walked over to Olabode with the gun and shot him in the chest, all while Olabode begged for his life and his friends watched from the car a short distance away.

When Poole walked away, Olabode ran to the car, where his friends flagged down a police officer and called an ambulance.

Olabode was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.