A man who had been released for one murder is now charged with another one – over a thrown drink. Dante Hunter, 25, and Shamel Capers, 26, have both been indicted in the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Joshua Taylor (pictured) on Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village in July 2023, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Hunter was already in custody on a parole warrant when he was indicted in Taylor’s death. Capers was arrested in New Jersey and extradited to New York. Capers previously spent eight years in prison in connection with the 2013 murder of 14-year-old D’aja Robinson before being exonerated in the case in 2022. Robinson was riding a bus home from a Sweet 16 party when she was shot and killed. Capers was one of two men who were convicted in Robinson’s death, but evidence later proved that the other man was the sole shooter.
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